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coulix | 6 years ago

What pushed you to move to Kafka?

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caust1c|6 years ago

Reliability, scalability and tooling (in that order).

Basically Kafka provides what NSQ is lacking: https://nsq.io/overview/features_and_guarantees.html

Messages are durable (across nodes, not just persisted to the filesystem). Messages are delivered in-order (for a partition). Consumers know all partitions of a topic from startup, it's not eventually consistent.

NSQ has been great honestly, it was just designed with different use cases in mind.

nik736|6 years ago

Was language a deciding factor? NSQ being Go while Kafka is Java.