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Do you believe Postgres task queues can replace something as robust as Kafka? What use-cases would you recommend to use it for?
by igorkrasnik 3y ago
Do you believe Postgres task queues can replace something as robust as Kafka?
What use-cases would you recommend to use it for?
- camwest 3y agoNo definitely not. Kafka is for LinkedIn scale. Postgres is for everyone else. Quick anecdote. I remember a friend who joined Shopify relatively early. He took ALL their data from many different services (analytics, Kafka etc) and loaded into Postgres on his laptop so he could query it efficiently. It's amazing how over-engineered some startups are.
- igorkrasnik 3y agohaha thank you I can tell you dozens of similar anecdotes too Kafka is very difficult to manage and it's better to avoid early for sure