"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful

""You don't need Kafka" considered harmful by employees of Kafka."

Yes. Setting aside the specific merits of the argument, this blog post should really have a disclaimer somewhere that the author works for Confluent, a major managed Kafka service provider. Perhaps that makes him an expert on this topic, but it should still be disclosed!

> Managed services make running Kafka a very uneventful experience (pun intended) and should be the first choice

Confluent, you say?

employee of Confluent.

I think that shouldn't matter but I still have a lot to disagree with the article.

feels like overengineering has become the standard for some people, and I quite dislike it personally.

> this blog post should really have a disclaimer somewhere that the author works for Confluent

Good idea; this is stated in the bio on my web site, but I've just added the same info again to the end of the post.

Confluent isn't just "a major managed Kafka service provider." The founders of Confluent created Kafka and they and their employees/former employees dominate the PMC committee for Kafka, meaning they control the direction of Kafka. Confluent is Kafka.

The author is a an employee for Confluent/Kafka so because his paycheck and equity grant depends on it and CFLT stock price, obviously whatever he writes is going to be heavily slanted in favor of Kafka. This isn't something that is a footnote at the bottom, it should be right up at the front.

Fair point.

It might be worth adding a more direct call-out to posts like this one. Many may not go as far as reading the Bio page. That may be on them technically speaking, but still.

In any case, thank you for writing and sharing your considered opinion!

Thank you, appreciate it!