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Approvers
- TBD
Decision
Kafka is an official infrastructure component of the FOLIO platform
Background/Context
As this decision is being documented after the fact, this section describes the discovered history of the decision rather than the background to the decision point.
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Unknown
Constraints
Unknown
Decision
Kafka is an official infrastructure component of the FOLIO platform
Implications
- Pros
- Alternative integration approach to HTTP APIs
- Cons
- Additional infrastructure component required for hosting providers to operate
- Dependency on third party tooling (much like PostgreSQL and Elastic Search)
- Increased operational complexity e.g. monitoring
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