[QUOTE] Stop over-engineering for the sake of following what's being marketed.

• Kafka for 250 KB/s?
• Flink for a meal-planning AI Agent sending 2 msg/s?

Absolutely absurd. It's high time we stop recommending these overkill big data solutions for small data problems.

Thankfully, nature seems to be healing. 🌱

Two recent blog posts with similar names… pic.twitter.com/5P5jzg5NAI

— Stanislav Kozlovski (@BdKozlovski) October 24, 2025

See also: Kafka’s 80% Problem¹, Flink’s 95% problem ²

1. https://aiven.io/blog/apache-kafkas-80-percent-problem ↩

2. https://www.tinybird.co/blog/flink-is-95-problem ↩