I just found the answer in Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-relation-between-Kafka-the-writer-and-Apache-Kafka-the-distributed-messaging-system
> 在 2015年7月6日，下午8:30，jakob.vollenwei...@bkw.ch 写道： > > Hi Admin, > > I'm just wondering from where the product name Kafka originated, particularly > since the general groove in Kafka's famous novels is often marked by a > senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity. > > Thanks, > Jakob > >
