[relay23]

>> Rabbit can do everything Kafka does - and much more - in a more configurable manner. Sure, if you're doing like 10's of MB/s. RMQ is fast compared to AK if you're not adding durability, persistence, etc. Try to run gigabytes per second through it though, or stretch across regions, or meet RTO when the broker gets overloaded and crashes.. Get your shovel ready! ;)

Kafka itself is dumb but scalable and resilient, it's the client ecosystem that's massive compared to RabbitMQ. Count 10 stream processing, connectivity, ingestion or log harvesting platforms that use RMQ as it's backend, then name 10 languages that have supported libraries for RMQ.. then compare that to Kafka.