LinkedIn is at it again!

Apparently, the Kafka's creators have overgrown its capabilities, so they decided to create a replacement called Northguard.

Northguard uses different protocol, replicates the data in the different way, and has different client-side. So, it's not an evolution of Kafka - it's its replacement.

Still, Northguard is not open source yet, so we do not have all the information to evaluate it - only some rumors from within LinkedIn. They do plan to open source it eventually, though.

Would it replace Kafka outside LinkedIn as well? I doubt it, Kafka (and more importantly its protocol) has too wide adoption to be thrown away that easily. But still, if we, as humanity, never reinvented the wheel, we would still travel in wooden carts of something...

#data #kafka