>From Jay Kreps: "I thought that since Kafka was a system optimized for writing using a writer's name would make sense. I had taken a lot of lit classes in college and liked Franz Kafka. Plus the name sounded cool for an open source project. So basically there is not much of a relationship."
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-relation-between-Kafka-the-writer-and-Apache-Kafka-the-distributed-messaging-system Regards, Mark On 20 May 2015 at 15:32, András Serény <sereny.and...@gravityrd.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I wonder, how the messaging system Kafka has got its name? I believe it > was named after Franz Kafka the writer (the names of the systems Samza and > Camus reinforce this belief), but how and why? Is there a story behind it? > > Thanks a lot, > András >
