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lionkortoday at 12:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

Fun anecdote; a couple years ago I started writing a Kafka alternative in C++ with a friend. I got pretty far, but abandoned the project.

We called it `tuberculosis`, or `tube` for short; of course, that is what killed Kafka.


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kylecazartoday at 4:57 PM

"Consumption" works too :)

Assuming topics are consumed in your version, a la Kafka.

sgttoday at 12:40 PM

Imagine talking to your clients about tech stacks and "we're running tuberculosis" comes up... while people are dying from it.

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