Why does it matter how many distinct tools you use? It seems easiest to just always use the most standard tool in the most standard way, to minimize the amount of custom code you have to write.

If the only tool you know is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.

Discussion on the same topic "Postgres over Kafka" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445841

I am excited about the Rails defaults where background and cache and sockets are all database driven. For normal-sized projects that still need those things, it's a huge win in simplicity.

Isn't listen/notify absurdly slow and lock contentious

I've found Kafka to be not particularly great with languages other than Java, if Confluent schemaregisty is involved.

I had fun working with the schema registy from TypeScript.

Couldn't agree more. Have built and ran an in-house postgresql based queue for several years. It can handle 5-10k msg/s in our production workloads.

This is an article in desperate need for some data visualizations. I do not think it does an effective job of communicating differences in performance.

Just dropping this here casually:

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      top: -0.4em;
      line-height: 0;
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  }

No-one ever regretted using a piece of infra to do what it wasn't planned for, during an incident at 3AM