Kafka-compatible ingestion is showing up everywhere now, including in analytics platforms that have nothing to do with running Kafka. Databricks added Kafka-compatible APIs to its Zerobus Ingest service. Snowflake went a step further at its Summit and announced Datastream, a native, fully Kafka-compatible streaming service. In both cases, existing Kafka producers can stream straight into the platform with no code changes, just a config change.This is good news for the ecosystem. It also confirms a point I have made for years: the Kafka API has become the de facto standard for moving events around, the same way the Amazon S3 API became the standard for object storage.