Kafka is already past it's prime time. Time for new solutions for the oldest problem - sending a message.
Nothing wrong with Kafka. Time to build better abstractions on top of Kafka.
ATProto? (aka AT protocol, ATP, Atmosphere...)
Erlang/OTP!
wait what do you mean? what's wrong with kafka?
I'm still convinced the vast majority of kafka implementations could be replaced with `SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY timestamp ASC`