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Are those over engineered systems even actually scalable? I know teams who designed a CQRS architecture using messages queues and a distributed NoSQL database a

by ahoka 1y ago

Are those over engineered systems even actually scalable? I know teams who designed a CQRS architecture using messages queues and a distributed NoSQL database and fail to sustain 10req/s for a read in something that is basically a CRUD application. Heck once someone literally said "But we use Kafka, why aren't we fast?!".

arealaccount 1y ago
Exactly this, every time I see kafka or similar its a web of 10M microprocesses that take more time in invocation alone than if you just ran the program in one go.
- _kb 1y ago
  How very kafkaesque.
  - ahoka 1y ago
    Nomen est omen.
sgarland 1y ago
I watched in amusement as the architecture team at $JOB eagerly did a PoC of a distributed RDBMS, only to eventually conclude that the latency was too high. Gee… if only someone had told you that would happen when you mentioned the idea. Oh wait.
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Aeolun 1y ago
Eh, they scale between $1000 and $10000 per month fairly easily. I’m not sure about the requests though.