More than 80% of the Fortune 100 use Kafka as the event streaming substrate to power real-time, user-facing applications and software-driven back ends. Kafka has become the go-to for any organization looking to integrate increasingly diverse portfolios of applications and microservices through immutable event logs rather than mutable data stores. The benefits are manifold, but recall that Kafka is a distributed system, and volunteering to operate a distributed system yourself is an increasingly controversial choice.
