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

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blindriver ◴[02 Nov 25 22:17 UTC] No.45793919[source]▶
""You don't need Kafka" considered harmful by employees of Kafka."
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redhale ◴[02 Nov 25 22:39 UTC] No.45794067[source]▶
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?

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1. blindriver ◴[02 Nov 25 23:06 UTC] No.45794221[source]▶
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.