You should consider using it regardless. I find 0.72 to be a great system, which is well designed and reliable.
As for Storm, it depends. If you just want a simple pub-sub queue system, probably not. Philip On Jun 18, 2013, at 6:48 AM, Piyush Rai <piyushra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to build a news feed similar to facebook in which user can > subscribe set of items and topics and they will receive feeds as that > subscribed topic changes. > I was looking around and many people say kafka is good choice. Can kafka be > self sufficient to build the entire news feed or should it be coupled with > something like storm. Should I even consider using kafka when my activity > stream is less than a million per day? > Thanks in advance > > -- > Regards, > Piyush Rai