Reading up on Kafka
3 deep · digging since dec 12, 25
- ADD / XOR / ROL: The missing OS
Large-scale distributed infrastructure lacks a complete datacenter OS analogous to a single-machine OS, with only fragmented proto-OS components existing today.
- IBM to acquire Confluent
Hacker News commenters react to IBM's acquisition of Confluent with widespread skepticism, citing IBM's history of poor acquisitions and suggesting Kafka alternatives.
- Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing
SQLFlow uses DuckDB to enable stream processing of Kafka data with SQL, claiming setup in under 5 minutes.