A nice side effect is that we are getting into "all things 'A'" * Kafka * Samza * Data * Scala * Akka * Spark ...
Peter On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Mark Reddy <mark.l.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- Peter Vandenabeele http://www.allthingsdata.io http://www.linkedin.com/in/petervandenabeele https://twitter.com/peter_v gsm: +32-478-27.40.69 e-mail: pe...@vandenabeele.com skype: peter_v_be
