Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
> In our experience, Kafka is one of the most polarizing technologies in the data space. Some people hate it, some people swear by it, but almost every technology company uses it.(emphasis added)Surely that's false?Or, I mean, neither of us are providing any evidence here... For my part, 0 of the last 6 companies I've worked for used it. The company before that did (I drove its adoption), but we later abandoned it.Linkedin built Kafka for massive-scale problems that 99% of us don't have. Though technologists have a well-earned reputation for using tech they don't need, my perception is that most of us are succeeding in avoiding the use of Kafka.