You Don't Need Kafka

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  • opa-kafka-plugin

    Open Policy Agent (OPA) plug-in for Kafka authorization

    You could inject a custom authorizer and use something like OPA for fine grained access control. See https://github.com/Bisnode/opa-kafka-plugin for an example.

  • redpanda

    Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!

    that's correct - we actually don't manually write the kafka api, but we codegenerate it: https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda/blob/dev/src/v/kafk...

    the tl;dr is that we wrote a pretty fast fragmented buffer parser (due to our thread-per-core design), we consume some json files and codegen it.... which basically means, if you connect an existing app that uses the kafka driver and it doesn't work it's a bug, and it's a matter of teaching the codegen to fix it most of the time. Transactions should land in the next month or so, which is the only thing really missing today.

    we have a ton of solo devs typically that come from the Go, Rust, JS & Python seem to like it quite a bit because of what you said.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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