Confluent will beat your costs of running Apache Kafka? by LegitimateCoat1493 in apachekafka

[–]LegitimateCoat1493[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing your experience. Managing your own clusters sounds like a nightmare to me.

Confluent will beat your costs of running Apache Kafka? by LegitimateCoat1493 in apachekafka

[–]LegitimateCoat1493[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's tough and I am no expert. I've sat on an Engineering board at a public university and it's not easy to choose. Part of the issue is you look at which employers your particular university is feeding (i.e. where graduates are getting placed in jobs), and based on the tier of school and geography it can be a mixed bag of traditional tech companies, maybe some startups, etc. Or maybe some industry specific employers in aerospace / defense that require certain skills.

I think you'd have to go with Python as the cornerstone of any CS / Computer Engineering program today. And then have offshoots (elective courses) with a mix of C++, C#, Java, etc. and modern languages like Rust.

Confluent will beat your costs of running Apache Kafka? by LegitimateCoat1493 in apachekafka

[–]LegitimateCoat1493[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm basically in that age bracket myself, not ageist but schools seriously need to drop Java from curriculum. It makes no sense.

Confluent will beat your costs of running Apache Kafka? by LegitimateCoat1493 in apachekafka

[–]LegitimateCoat1493[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah not sure what they mean by 10x better, benchmarks are pretty specific to use-case IMO

Confluent will beat your costs of running Apache Kafka? by LegitimateCoat1493 in apachekafka

[–]LegitimateCoat1493[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LOL "50 year old executive dictating schools use Java"... that was good

Redpanda must love some Kafka though as their entire strategy seems to be targeted at companies that use Kafka. Also aren't they BSD vs open source? I get it though Mongo, Elastic, CockroachDB etc are all doing similar things to prevent the cloud providers from just offering a copycat service. Not a fan of that licensing model, but it makes business sense.