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"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful
Looking to make it to the front page of HackerNews? Then writing a post arguing that “Postgres is enough”, or why “you don’t need Kafka at your scale” is a pretty failsafe way of achieving exactly that. No matter how often it has been discussed before, this topic is always doing well. And sure, what’s not to love about that? I mean, it has it all: Postgres, everybody’s most favorite RDBMS—check! Keeping things lean and easy—sure, count me in! A somewhat spicy take—bring it on!
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No technology is a silver bullet. We programmers just need to know and understand when to use tools provided for us, maybe understand the tradeoffs.
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