Let's talk about Kafka • Particular Software

We get a lot of questions about Kafka. Is it good? Does it live up to the hype? And most frequently, when are we going to support Kafka in NServiceBus.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://particular.net/blog/lets-talk-about-kafka

And now, with RavenDB 5.4, you can create an ongoing task,
that will transfer your data to Kafka. Kafka ETL
See: ETL to Kafka

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Thank you for the in depth analysis comparing Kafka and queuing systems. It would be great to update this article as Kafka is implementing KIP 932 - “Queues for Kafka”. It’s definitely going to help narrow the gap, but there are still going to be some subtle, and some not-so-subtle differences. The most obvious gap is the lack of DLQs, but I think the subtle differences will be more interesting.