Kafka's Achilles, it wasn't designed for application queuing

A small team building a resume parser for a job-matching platform initially chooses Kafka for its speed and low latency but soon becomes overwhelmed by the complexity of maintaining the infrastructure required to handle retries, deduplication, and rate limiting. As the team struggles with managing race conditions, custom coordination logic, and Kafka infrastructure, they discover Inngest's Flow Control, which offers built-in functionalities such as debouncing, throttling, prioritization, and retries without the need for additional glue code or infrastructure management. This shift allows the team to focus more on product development, reducing bugs and API usage, while enhancing their ability to implement new features rapidly. Inngest's Flow Control simplifies the process by providing declarative primitives, reducing the overhead associated with Kafka and Redis, and allowing the team to deliver features more efficiently.

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