Comment by dwelch2344

Totally agree with this. "Kafka is terrible if you use it with poor practices" should be the title of this. It's totally clickbait targeting the "Database Inside Out" articles / concept, which if you read the most common 3-page high level it explicitly states you should be materializing up into other data sources / structures / systems / etc

To date, I've never written code that reads from a Kafka topic that wasn't taking data and transforming + materializing it into domain intelligence