Kafka je zmogljiva, vendar ne vedno pravo orodje — se odlično obneese pri visokovolumskih event streamih, data pipeline-ih in event-driven sistemih, vendar dodaja operacijsko kompleksnost, ki jo preprostejša orodja izognejo. Razumevanje, kdaj se Kafka ujema (in kdaj je preuporabljiva) odraža dober razmislek.
Kdaj je Kafka dobra izbira
✓ HIGH-VOLUME event streaming / data → millions of events; high throughput needs
✓ DATA PIPELINES → streaming data reliably between many systems (a data backbone)
✓ MULTIPLE CONSUMERS of the same stream → many independent consumers/groups read the data
✓ EVENT-DRIVEN architecture / event sourcing → events as a durable record
✓ REPLAY needed → re-read historical events
✓ REAL-TIME stream processing / analytics
→ Kafka shines for scale, streaming, retention, and multiple consumers
