Stop Treating Kafka like a queue! A story about silent lag, vanishing messages, and the...
Stop Treating Kafka like a queue!
A story about silent lag, vanishing messages, and the mental model shift nobody warns you about.
You integrated Kafka. Messages are flowing. Everything looks fine in staging. Then you ship to production, traffic spikes, and suddenly messages are "disappearing," consumers are falling hours behind, and your on-call engineer is staring at a dashboard that makes no sense.
This is not a Kafka bug. This is a mental model problem.
The core misunderstanding
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