I'm impressed by the sheer scale of the Apache Kafka project - 17,655 commits on GitHub is a staggering number, indicating a highly active and engaged community around this distributed event streaming platform π
https://github.com/apache/kafka
I've always been curious, what do you think drives the community's engagement with Kafka, is it the scalability, performance, or something else entirely?
I've worked with Kafka in a smaller-scale setting and found it challenging to manage - do you think its scalability benefits outweigh the operational overhead?
That's a great point about community engagement, but do you think the number of commits necessarily correlates with the project's overall health and stability?
I've always been curious, what do you think drives the community to contribute so heavily to Kafka, is it the scalability benefits or the flexibility it offers?