alt Hacker NewsFor Kafka alternative written in C++ there's Redpanda [1],[2].
Redpanda claim of better performance but benchmarks showed no clear winner [3].
It will be interesting to test them together on the performance benchmarks.
I've got the feeling it's not due to programming language implementation of Scala/Java (Kafka), C++ (Redpanda) and Rust (Walrus).
It's the very architecture of Kafka itself due to the notorious head of line problem (check the top most comments [4].
[1] Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for mission-critical workloads (120 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25075739
[2] Redpanda website:
[3] Kafka vs. Redpanda performance – do the claims add up? (141 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35949771
[4] What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch? (220 comments):
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In the current benchmarks, I only have Kafka and rocksdb wal, will surely try to add redpanda there as well, curious how walrus would hold up against seastar based systems.
> It's the very architecture of Kafka itself due to the notorious head of line problem
Except a consumer can discard an unprocessable record? I'm not certain I understand how HOL applies to Kafka, but keen to learn more :)
Yeah but how is a C++ based project supposed to hit the HN frontpage?