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Redpanda promises Kafka-protocol compatibility without the JVM, without ZooKeeper, and with a thread-per-core architecture. By 2025 there are already serious production deployments. It is worth understanding where the switch pays off and where it does not.
Kafka 4.0 llegó en marzo con la promesa cumplida: el clúster se autoadministra sin ZooKeeper. Después de meses operando clústeres KRaft y de la migración obligada, qué cambia de verdad, dónde duelen las diferencias y qué hay que saber antes de migrar.
Kafka gets the headlines as the byword for modern messaging, but RabbitMQ remains the better choice for task queues with retries, asynchronous RPC, and pub/sub with complex routing. This guide compares both against NATS, walks through classic patterns and production mistakes, and helps you decide based on the actual use case rather than the trend.
