There’s definitely overlap/parallels with kafka, and there was even some discussion about adding a layer of API compatibility with kafka. I’m not expert at either, but, broadly yes it’s in that general direction.

edited: I asked on the discord, spetz the main creator responded they have have configurable CRC checks that can be enabled or disabled, though it looks like the default is disabled, he provided these links

Also encouraged anyone interested to come discuss in discord!

I haven’t had much time to work on this in the past 2 weeks, but, the client is about 80 or 90% complete as far as an “alpha” goes, though being built as a thin wrapper around the official Rusk SDK, there’s not much difference in practice from a alpha/v1 and a final release candidate here I suppose. login, creating topics, streams and sending messages (in a working PR) all work, it basically just needs to poll messages and figure out a story for passing in config instead of using the SDK default config… that said, I’d love to get someone else from the community with some combination of a) more rust experience, and/or b) more time to help out/help get it over the line… once its done, the Iggy team will help take over deployment/managing the hex package, etc, but need to get it the last mile or two first. If anyone is interested, respond here or DM, or come say hi in the discord channel.