[vogtb]

Having looked into a couple of these, it seems like they each have their own sort of focus, which makes sense. From my own experience, and talking to other engineers, companies use kafka for: an http replacement that lets subscribers have down time, a way to record and replay time series data, a tool for buffering to some async path, or general pub-sub event bus. Sometimes all of these at once! Each one has it's only operational patterns, so having UIs that focus on these patterns sorta clicks with me.

That said, it's been a while since kafka gained popularity, so it's surprising we've not seen any coalesce into a main contender.