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Fun anecdote; a couple years ago I started writing a Kafka alternative in C++ with a friend. I got pretty far, but abandoned the project.

We called it `tuberculosis`, or `tube` for short; of course, that is what killed Kafka.





"Consumption" works too :)

Assuming topics are consumed in your version, a la Kafka.

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Imagine talking to your clients about tech stacks and "we're running tuberculosis" comes up... while people are dying from it.

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You just say "well, the alternative was Kafka" and they'd surely get it. Or not. Either way we imagined it to be hilarious.

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t10s, pronounced "tíos" or a stuttering "t- tents" on your geo. :-D

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Is it me or is this analogy a bit too dark/insensitive?

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