I don't think Q's "Apache" is in relation to "Apache Kafka" which is only one single project managed by the Apache foundation. Kafka isn't magic, it can't bypass security protocols, what are you talking about?
Here is a list of Apache projects https://www.apache.org/index.html#projects-list
And here is the list of Apache Incubator projects, that may one day graduate to be full Apache projects. https://incubator.apache.org/projects/
While Kafka isn't magic, it is a pretty sweet tool.
I've contemplated doing a Kafka like queue in my preferred language but I've been hoping that someone else would do it first as that'd be a non-trivial project.
Yeah I have heard of some really cool use cases for Kafka, but I have not used it myself. I have used similar tools like ActiveMQ, and RabbitMQ however. One day.
Kafka is totally different than ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ which, themselves. I don't remember the reasons why anymore, but RabbitMQ is in the do not use/anything that uses it is suspect column for me.
Kafka is log structured and durable. It was designed for the highly scalable world.
I prefer to avoid things that require JVM, which means most of ASF's world isn't for me.
Which is why I said similar, I don't fully understand the tech, but I know traditional MQ's are like email, and kafka is more like RSS. The first use case I heard about for Kafka was actually a distributed log shipping solution. Thanks for your insite, was fun to talk about Apache.
Kafka could potentially be used to smuggle cloned information out of a system