Look at mr fancy, with his interface that can search through topics - we’re just flying by the top of our head >_>

At least we were smart enough to just generate a CloudEvent and jam it into a KafkaMessage before sending it, so that’s pretty standard.

We just use it as a messaging bus - we’re not sending “big data” through Kafka. We tried, failed, and immediately gave up, lmao. Now we just save data on HDFS and send where we stored said file (effectively a “claim-check pattern”, if you’re into design patterns)