Data Lake for Enterprises

When to use Kafka

Kafka has its core capabilities making it a choice for our use case and these were documented in this chapter when we started of Kafka should be used:

• When you need a highly distributed messaging system
• When you need a messaging system which can scale out exponentially
• When you need high throughput on publishing and subscribing
• When you have varied consumers having varied capabilities by which to subscribe these published messages in the topics
• When you need a fault tolerance operation
• When you need durability in message delivery
• Obviously, all of the preceding without tolerating performance degrade. With all the preceding it should be blazing fast in operation.