Replying to @micheal
@micheal I think it’s important to avoid conflating open-source with the "public cloud".
@micheal IIRC AWS SQS predates Kafka by like 5 years or so.
@micheal Why would LinkedIn “compete” with an existing commodity like SQS?
Ian Brown @igb
@micheal Simply put, local innovation is cheap (above a certain market cap) when compared to a commercial product in a commoditized space.
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@micheal Kafka is a more competitive product in the ~same market space as SQS because it’s local innovations outpaced the commodity solution.