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Re:Postgres Task Queues: The Secret Weapon Killing Specializ... by igorkrasnik on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:59AM (#35918035)
Do you believe Postgres task queues can replace something as robust as Kafka?

What use-cases would you recommend to use it for?

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Re:Postgres Task Queues: The Secret Weapon Killing Specializ... by camwest on Friday May 12, 2023 @12:01PM (#35918070)
No definitely not. Kafka is for LinkedIn scale. Postgres is for everyone else.

Quick anecdote. I remember a friend who joined Shopify relatively early. He took ALL their data from many different services (analytics, Kafka etc) and loaded into Postgres on his laptop so he could query it efficiently.

It's amazing how over-engineered some startups are.

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Re:Postgres Task Queues: The Secret Weapon Killing Specializ... by igorkrasnik on Friday May 12, 2023 @12:04PM (#35918121)
haha thank you

I can tell you dozens of similar anecdotes too

Kafka is very difficult to manage and it's better to avoid early for sure

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