MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective

Re:MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective by victor106 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:13PM (#35158764)

>Kafka is a monster of complexity notoriously hard to operate (Hello ZooKeeper) and to understand properly (Hello ordering, persistency and partitions).

100% this.

Even using managed Kafka is a pain for most use cases. We replaced managed Kafka with a simple postgresql db using skip locked as a queue mechanism and the dev teams productivity tripled and our total cost of ownership decreased dramatically.

Don’t think twice, think 10 times if you really need Kafka

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Re:MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective by EdwardDiego on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:05PM (#35159634)

Yeah, if you're able to replace Kafka with PG then your stack didn't need Kafka, so that's good call.

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