I feel dumb saying it, but as someone whose had a lot of experience with messages buses (Rabbit and AMQP1.0), I've always struggled to understand what domains/situations Kafka is actually the best fit for. It's probably because of the areas that I work in which doesn't make it obvious, but I'd love to hear what exact scenarios it does actually make sense to use Kafka for instead of Rabbit or AMQP1.0 :)
RabbitMQ is one of those things that I've always found better to let the experts run (managed SaaS), unless your team is really wanting to take on the burden of becoming an Erlang distributed system debugger :)
Pulsar seems really interesting... There are now more managed Pulsar offerings coming online (StreamNative, DataStax who bought Kesque, Pandio, etc)
RabbitMQ is one of those things that I've always found better to let the experts run (managed SaaS), unless your team is really wanting to take on the burden of becoming an Erlang distributed system debugger :)
Pulsar seems really interesting... There are now more managed Pulsar offerings coming online (StreamNative, DataStax who bought Kesque, Pandio, etc)