Apache Kafka

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2019–2022), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Apache Kafka, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Debugging topics with lots of data is slow and frustrating2022-11-20
Error messages are nearly useless; wrong input stalls or times out with no way to debug2022-05-23
No documented way to permanently remove a node; undocumented behaviour causes annoyance2021-06-18
Setting max message size needs many scattered configs; hard to get right and poorly documented2020-05-18