// Hacker Noon · 2 April 2026

Kafka Has Become the Postgres of Streaming — And That Changes Everything

Kafka has crossed the commodity threshold — reliable, ubiquitous, and no longer a strategic differentiator. Like Postgres before it, Kafka's success is also its ceiling for vendors trying to build businesses on it. The hard problems have moved up the stack: lakehouse integration, cost efficiency, go...

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