>> I mean apart from the fact that Kinesis is a hosted service and Kafka would most likely require you setting up a cluster.
AFAIK that's the only we use Kinesis over something like Kafka or Spark (much to the chagrin of of our data team). We are planning on moving to Kafka I believe but in the meantime while the Data folks sort all that out we are using Kinesis.
AFAIK that's the only we use Kinesis over something like Kafka or Spark (much to the chagrin of of our data team). We are planning on moving to Kafka I believe but in the meantime while the Data folks sort all that out we are using Kinesis.