My experience has been a mixture of "when all you have is a hammer ..." and Pointy Haired Bosses LOVE kafka, and tend to default to it because it's what all their Pointy Haired Boss friends are using
In a more generous take, using some buffered ingest does help with not having to choose between a c500.128xl ingest machine and dropping messages, but I would never advocate for standing up kafka just for log buffering
In a more generous take, using some buffered ingest does help with not having to choose between a c500.128xl ingest machine and dropping messages, but I would never advocate for standing up kafka just for log buffering