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Date: 2022-05-11

Status - DRAFT

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RFC - N/A

Other Documents

• Search Proposal
• Pub-Sub RFC
• Data Import Proposal
• Subsequent Documentation
  • Kafka development guidelines
  • /wiki/spaces/~Vasily/pages/3571867

Contributors

• Marc Johnson 

Approvers

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• Craig McNally 
• Zak Burke 
• Marc Johnson 
• Tod Olson 
• Jeremy Huff 
• Chulin Meng 
• Raman Auramau 
• Steffen Köhler 

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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