[taywrobel]

On the one hand, I've seen people (including myself) try to hack job-queue like semantics onto Kafka many a time, and it always hits issues once redelivery or backoff comes up. So it's nice to see them considering making this a first-class citizen of Kafka.

On the other hand, Kafka isn't the only player in the queue game nowadays. If you need message queue and job queue semantics combined (which you likely do), just use Pulsar.

[touisteur]

I think the most likely use case, the one making me happy they're working on this, is reducing infra spend and having a separate tool/guarantees/storage for queues and for whatever kafka is more made for.

I'm just hoping librdkafka gets good too-tier support for this feature in a timely manner.