Yeah, once you do have to scale a relational database you're in for a world of pain. Band-aid after band-aid... I very much prefer to just start with Kafka alre

Yeah, once you do have to scale a relational database you're in for a world of pain. Band-aid after band-aid... I very much prefer to just start with Kafka already. At the very least you'll have a buffer to help you gain some time when the database struggles.