Kafka to transport binary files

I'm thinking of using Kafka for transporting binary files (tiff, jpeg,
pdf). These files are anywhere between 10 KB to 5MB. Thought behind
considering Kafka is - It serves as a staging area for the files and
facilitates asynchronous ingestion in near-real-time.

Any thoughts on using Kafka for binary payloads? gotchas, watch outs?

Thanks,
Rohit Pujari
Solutions Architect, Hortonworks
rpujari [ at ] hortonworks.com