One thing I immediately noticed after switching from sns/sqs to Kafka was how fast it is.<p>Messages seem to get sent/received almost immediately.
Apache Kafka 4.0 was just released. This is a major release which includes some significant improvements:<p>* Removal of Apache ZooKeeper as a dependency<p>* New consumer group protocol (KIP-848)<p>* Early access of Queues For Kafka (KIP-932)