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IBM to acquire Confluent

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443 points abd12 | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 13:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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itsanaccount ◴[08 Dec 25 14:39 UTC] No.46192728[source]▶
And the enshittification treadmill continues. Great time to be a kafka alternative.

I'll start.

https://github.com/tansu-io/tansu

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gooob ◴[08 Dec 25 14:48 UTC] No.46192825[source]▶
wait what's wrong with kafka?
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Boxxed ◴[08 Dec 25 15:07 UTC] No.46193061[source]▶
I was in the midst of writing a snarky reply and then realized my actual issue with Kafka is that people reach for it way too often and use it in ways that don't really make sense.

Kind of like how people use docker for evrything, when what you really should be doing is learn how to package software.

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stackskipton ◴[08 Dec 25 15:18 UTC] No.46193191[source]▶
Ops here, Docker is packaging software.

Agree on the Kafka thing though. I've seen so many devs trip over Kafka topics, partitions and offsets when their throughput is low enough that RabbitMQ would do fine.

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1. marcosdumay ◴[08 Dec 25 15:44 UTC] No.46193597[source]▶
No, docker is a software for packaging systems.

The people distributing software should shut them damn up about how the rest of the system it runs in is configured. (But not you, your job is packaging full systems.)

That said, it seems to me that this is becoming less of a problem.