Surviving Opinion Whiplash

Photo by Kees Streefkerk on Unsplash

Last week I was researching some best practices and conventions. I was trying to learn how other teams name their Kafka topics since I’ve recently been working on some event broker technology.

I wasn’t looking for anything super concrete — just something to help me start to reason about things. I was confident that a topic like topics would have some consensus about good names and provide a general direction at this…