Discussion of Apache Kafka's design and details around how and why one might use it within a Ruby application. Given at Lone Star Ruby Conference on 8/11/2012. Video of Presentation @ Pivotal Labs http://www.livestream.com/pivotallabs/video?clipId=pla_edbd81df-89ec-4933-8295-42bf91a9d301 Demo Application Repo http://github.com/jpignata/kafka-demo/ Apache Incubator: Kafka http://incubator.apache.or