Kafka and RabbitMQ are powerful messaging systems with different goals. In this post, we compare their architecture and ideal use cases.
Kafka
Designed for high-throughput, real-time event streaming. Ideal for logs, telemetry, analytics.
RabbitMQ
Message broker using message queues. Great for short-lived tasks, reliable job delivery.
Recommendation
Use Kafka for event streams, RabbitMQ for job queues. Sometimes, both together!