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> (I'm looking at you new york times, you know what you did wrong) You're going to have to be a tiny bit more specific here. NYT is THE factory of wrongness fo
by officialchicken 3y ago
> (I'm looking at you new york times, you know what you did wrong)
You're going to have to be a tiny bit more specific here. NYT is THE factory of wrongness for sure. In every dimension. Are we talking "yellow cake" wrong, or somewhere else on the severity of f'up scale...
- joking 3y agoThey wrote a post on how they disabled the deletion and compaction of the data in Kafka and used it as the source of truth.
- KaiserPro 3y agohttps://www.confluent.io/blog/publishing-apache-kafka-new-york-times/ https://www.confluent.io/blog/publishing-apache-kafka-new-yo... ^ this. All they needed was a database, or possibly a DB that supports row signing. I mean actually they could have done it with git. They don't publish that many stories an hour. Everything about this setup is just plain wrong, and to then boast about it, absolute madness.