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Re:Launch HN: Convoy (YC W22) – Open-source cloud-native web... by shaeqahmed on Saturday February 26, 2022 @03:27AM (#30476069)
> Customers also use Convoy as a broker for inter-service communication.

Very cool product! But this part threw me off a bit, wouldn't a distributed message broker like Kafka be a much better option for this use-case?

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Re:Launch HN: Convoy (YC W22) – Open-source cloud-native web... by subomi on Saturday February 26, 2022 @03:43AM (#30476137)
Yes, infact a distributed broker will be a better option. But some of these users like the visibility Convoy's UI provides and since they currently do this inter-service communication with a HTTP Post, they prefer to put Convoy in the middle to provide visibility and they can perform retries with Convoy.
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