alt Hacker NewsYeah, but that's like doing actual engineering. Instead you should just point to Kafka and say that it's going to make your horrible architecture scale magically. That's how the pros do it.
Yeah, but that's like doing actual engineering. Instead you should just point to Kafka and say that it's going to make your horrible architecture scale magically. That's how the pros do it.
Kafka isn't magic, but it's close. If a single-node solution like an SQL database can handle your load then why shouldn't you stick with SQL? Kafka is not for you. Kafka is for workloads that would DDoS Postgres.