As a messaging platform, Kafka needs no introduction. Since its inception, it has virtually rewritten the book on event streaming and has catalysed the adoption of the now household design patterns — microservices, event-sourcing and CQRS.
Being such a godsend, it almost gets away with its notorious lack of tooling. You'd be hard-pressed to find a developer who hasn't at one time looked at the built-in CLI tools, cupped their face and uttered: "Is this it? Are you kidding me?"