🔧 Stop Thinking of Kafka as a Queue. It's a Log, and That Changes Everything.

The moment something clicks with Kafka, it usually isn't after reading the documentation. It's after you stop trying to map it onto something you already know.

Most developers come to Kafka from a background with RabbitMQ, SQS, or some other traditional message broker. That prior experience is actually the obstacle. Because Kafka looks like a...