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Re:Kafka Is Not a Database by wdb on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @05:58PM (#25352712)
Interesting, do you have any resources about how to best handle side effects with message queues (e.g. GCP PubSub)? Trying to find out if its worth the effort, or good practice to allow replay-ability (like from backup) of message and get back to the same state
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Re:Kafka Is Not a Database by arafsheikh on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:15PM (#25354917)
Not sure about PubSub, but Kafka doesn’t store messages on disk forever by default. So hydrating the state from a message bus may not be a good idea depending on what you’re doing. I’d say DB is the way to go here.

Don’t have any resources though. I’m only speaking from experience.

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