IBM Bluemix has been offered &quot;pure&quot; hosted Kafka as their MessageHub product for a little while: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.ibm.com&#x2F;messaging&#x2F;message-hub&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.ibm.com&#x2F;messaging&#x2F;message-hub&#x2F;</a><p>MessageHub&#x27;s lead engineer Oliver Deakin gave a talk at Unified Log London recently where he explained how MessageHub was architected under the hood, was super-interesting. Slides available from here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetup.com&#x2F;unified-log-london&#x2F;events&#x2F;229693782&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetup.com&#x2F;unified-log-london&#x2F;events&#x2F;229693782&#x2F;</a>