I am not an expert in either and have only worked with Kafka. At a past job I had to write a connector job to parse and sanitize some extremely dirty, unstructured data and pass it along somewhere else. RabbitMQ supports this? What is the one use case of kafka? I think you have it backwards.
> parse and sanitize some extremely dirty, unstructured data and pass it along somewhere else
can you be more specific? that to me sounds like hello world for either of these tools. "santize data" is an application level concern that neither rabbit or kafka would handle. as far as "pass along somewhere else" again both tools can do.
It was a Sink Connector. I don’t know what it was or wasn’t supposed to do but I was asked to do it, as is often the case in tech. I could have done any number of transformations in that process though, which I’m not sure rabbitmq supports
It sounds to me like you aren't really even sure what you built. I have operated both rabbit and kafka at scale I definitely do not have it backwards :)
No, I’m not, because it was years ago, and I’m asking for clarification because what was said immediately sounded wrong to me (I’ve managed a lot of rabbitmq deployments) and you’ve not really given one other than an appeal to authority. guess I have my answer. Can’t find anything that suggests rabbitmq natively supports anything like sink connectors. thanks.
> Can’t find anything that suggests rabbitmq natively supports anything like sink connectors
Kafka doesnt natively support them either. That would be Kafka Connect. I guess you could use it as an MQ, but it wouldnt be a very good one. Its more used as a data integration platform. If you want more MQ-like functionality OOTB on top of Kafka you would want to use something like Kafka Streams instead.
So let me get this straight. You've used Kafka once, RabbitMQ never. You don't really know what you did with Kafka. But you somehow know that RabbitMQ cannot do the thing which you don't really remember anymore. Doesn't make much sense to be honest.
Nobody can really have any sources for RabbitMQ being able to do it if you don't know what it supposedly cannot do. The way you descibed it, is that you simply read data and then did something with the data and passed it to somewhere else. RabbitMQ obviously can do it.
> So let me get this straight. You've used Kafka once, RabbitMQ never
Not true, and some also for the rest of your snotty comment, I'd have a response but it's best not to engage trolls. Another commenter answered the question I had. Good luck.
Also, did you register solely to make this comment? Pretty sad display, really.
