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[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/29/2020 12:51 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <bce03550-3e71-4036-ba80-ee902c494c65n at googlegroups.com>,
> Galen <gltackett at gmail.com> writes:
>>> Not sure who intended.
> 
>> Sorry, that was meant in humor, and perhaps should have had a laughing
>> emoji.  It is as an allusion (perhaps a bit too obscure) to Franz Kafka,
>> Bohemian novelist and short-story writer (1883-1924), whose name has
>> entered the English language as th adjective \_Kafkasque_/. I probably
>> shouldn't take up any more bandwidth here on the subject.
> 
> I think that most people here have an idea who Kafka was.  On the other
> hand, most probably haven't heard of, and fewer still worked with, Kafka
> software.

Here? Probably not so many.

But it is actually widely used.

It is an Apache project.

It originate at LinkedIn.

LinkedIn still use Kafka They have 100 Kafka clusters with
4000 servers processing 7 trillion messages per day.

>            Considering the connotations, is that a good name?

Per wikipedia:

<quote>
Jay Kreps chose to name the software after the author Franz Kafka 
because it is "a system optimized for writing", and he liked Kafka's work.
</quote>

Arne