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[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/29/2020 1:27 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

Other big Kafka users are:

Pinterest - 2000 servers processing 800 billion
messages totalling 1.2 PB per day.

Netflix - 36 clusters with 4000 servers
processing 700 billion messages per day.

Arne