I’ve been watching this story play on repeat for some time now; the death of tools like Spark and Kafka has been heralded from the treetops for a decade now, yet here we are … living in a Spark and Kafka world. Someone once told someone else that it is hard to kick against the goad. Indeed it is. I don’t see this as any sort of failure or shortcoming, though; it’s just part of the circle of life, and tech. It’s natural.