Kora: The Cloud Native Engine for Apache Kafka

https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-native-data-streaming-kafka-engine/

by hintymad • 3 years ago

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dikei• 3 years ago

So Confluent pulled a "ship of Theseus" on Confluence Cloud, it still looks like Kafka, but everything underneath has been replaced by a proprietary system.

kfk• 3 years ago

Please, look into your use cases and keep asking "why", why do I need Kafka? Kafka is a beast of a tool. Example, I have seen people using Kafka after an MQTT broker, because... Kafka has an MQTT connector. Well, MQTT is a pub/sub architecture, so you are putting a pub/sub (Kafka) after another pub/sub MQTT, you need to be aware of that and need to think it thru if it makes sense for your use cases.

ckdarby• 3 years ago

AWS Managed Kafka is eating their business for lunch and this is the attempt of layering on the non-open source options into only their cloud.

pramodbiligiri• 3 years ago

I wonder which language they chose for this project? I couldn't find any reference to that in that blog post.

pjmlp• 3 years ago

I wondered the same, with so much focus on performance across the blog post.

hintymad• 3 years ago

Given their description on separated scaling on storage and compute, I was wondering if Kora has an architecture more similar to Apache Pulsar than Apache Kafka.

Kora: The Cloud Native Engine for Apache Kafka

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