CommunityNews
"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!
Read in full here:
Most Liked
dyowee
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.
2
Popular Backend topics
It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Docker.
Docker is not the only containerization tool out there and there might just be better alternatives… ...
New
New
This comes up in my conversations surprisingly often so I thought it’s worth to write my thoughts down instead of repeating them again an...
New
One of Haskell’s features that I really liked was list comprehensions, so I was very pleased to discover how nice Julia’s comprehensions ...
New
In recent months I use Go for the implementation of Proof of Concept in my leisure time, partly to study of Go programming language itsel...
New
Lisp Interview: questions to Alex Nygren of Kina Knowledge, using Common Lisp extensively in their document processing stack - Lisp jour...
New
New
GitHub - deadpixi/wasm-maze-generator: A simple WASM maze generator in Go.
A simple WASM maze generator in Go. Contribute to deadpixi/wa...
New
Rails is not written in Ruby.
I’m born and raised in Kraków, a beautiful city in Poland, maybe you’ve heard about it, maybe you’ve even ...
New
GitHub - clojure-rs/ClojureRS: Clojure, implemented atop Rust (unofficial).
Clojure, implemented atop Rust (unofficial). Contribute to c...
New
Other popular topics
Write Elixir tests that you can be proud of. Dive into Elixir’s test philosophy and gain mastery over the terminology and concepts that u...
New
New
New
poll
poll
Be sure to check out @Dusty’s article posted here: An Introduction to Alternative Keyboard Layouts It’s one of the best write-...
New
Small essay with thoughts on macOS vs. Linux:
I know @Exadra37 is just waiting around the corner to scream at me “I TOLD YOU SO!!!” but I...
New
Hello everyone! This thread is to tell you about what authors from The Pragmatic Bookshelf are writing on Medium.
New
Use WebRTC to build web applications that stream media and data in real time directly from one user to another, all in the browser.
...
New
If you want a quick and easy way to block any website on your Mac using Little Snitch simply…
File > New Rule:
And select Deny, O...
New
Inside our android webview app, we are trying to paste the copied content from another app eg (notes) using navigator.clipboard.readtext ...
New
Develop, deploy, and debug BEAM applications using BEAMOps: a new paradigm that focuses on scalability, fault tolerance, and owning each ...
New
Categories:
Sub Categories:
Popular Portals
- /elixir
- /rust
- /ruby
- /wasm
- /erlang
- /phoenix
- /keyboards
- /python
- /js
- /rails
- /security
- /go
- /swift
- /vim
- /clojure
- /emacs
- /haskell
- /java
- /svelte
- /onivim
- /typescript
- /kotlin
- /c-plus-plus
- /crystal
- /tailwind
- /react
- /gleam
- /ocaml
- /flutter
- /elm
- /vscode
- /ash
- /html
- /opensuse
- /centos
- /zig
- /deepseek
- /php
- /scala
- /react-native
- /sublime-text
- /lisp
- /textmate
- /debian
- /nixos
- /agda
- /kubuntu
- /django
- /arch-linux
- /deno
- /nodejs
- /ubuntu
- /revery
- /spring
- /manjaro
- /lua
- /diversity
- /julia
- /markdown
- /slackware








