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How Kafka trended on Hacker News

Kafka was mentioned 18,230 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in May 2020 with 365 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Kafka appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
18,230
Peak month
May 2020 (365)
First seen
2007
2008201120142017202020232026
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Top Hacker News stories about Kafka

  1. 1.I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka 1,797 points · 226 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka 597 points · 276 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres 561 points · 401 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Kafka without ZooKeeper 393 points · 195 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Apache Kafka Goes 1.0 392 points · 134 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now? 389 points · 364 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times 369 points · 146 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Understanding Kafka with Factorio 318 points · 84 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency 314 points · 181 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Kafka Is Not a Database 313 points · 165 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka 278 points · 81 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Heroku Kafka 276 points · 116 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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