Kafka Msg VS REST Calls

Question

Nowadays in microservice world, i’m seeing alot of design in my workplace that uses kafka messaging when you can achieve similar results using rest api calls between microservic

Answer 1

There are several posts which make easy to understand Kafka's role in Microsercices.

microservices-apache-kafka-domain-driven-design

journey-to-event-driven

building-a-microservices-ecosystem-with-kafka

build-services-backbone-events

If you need any further help let me know. Happy to help.