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This is for AWS. Kafka isn't designed to work well in an environment where partitioning occurs with any frequency. AWS is such an environment.

https://aphyr.com/posts/293-call-me-maybe-kafka

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For that matter, RabbbitMQ isn't either. see https://aphyr.com/posts/315-call-me-maybe-rabbitmq .

I always wondered if Amazon would really be open about and go public when a split brain in their network caused one of the hosted data services to loose data. Maybe they just throw money at the hardware and hope for the best.

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