Compare suitability, operational responsibilities and limits before choosing this technology for a project. Which trade-offs should guide the decision?

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Kafka is useful for durable event streams with replay and independent consumers. Plan topic ownership, partitioning and retention around the workload. It is not simply a queue that deletes every message after one consumer reads it; offsets and retention determine what each consumer can revisit.

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