No one is forcing them to talk to you. Chances are there are benefits of laying out more information that you aren't considering. 15 minutes is the minimum amou

No one is forcing them to talk to you. Chances are there are benefits of laying out more information that you aren't considering. 15 minutes is the minimum amount of time you should spend considering a major architectural decision. And the reasoning should go a bit deeper than "cos we need this feature lol" The actual recommendation: "I'd recommend conducting a proof of concept with your actual workload patterns to make an informed decision." is objectively correct with the context given. There are plenty of real world usecases where you can do polling in Memcached to emulate pub/sub.