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Re:RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1) by officialchicken on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @06:06PM (#37577565)
> (I'm looking at you new york times, you know what you did wrong)

You're going to have to be a tiny bit more specific here. NYT is THE factory of wrongness for sure. In every dimension. Are we talking "yellow cake" wrong, or somewhere else on the severity of f'up scale...

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Re:RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1) by joking on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @02:53AM (#37581179)
They wrote a post on how they disabled the deletion and compaction of the data in Kafka and used it as the source of truth.
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Re:RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1) by KaiserPro on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:22AM (#37583793)
https://www.confluent.io/blog/publishing-apache-kafka-new-yo...

^ this.

All they needed was a database, or possibly a DB that supports row signing. I mean actually they could have done it with git. They don't publish that many stories an hour.

Everything about this setup is just plain wrong, and to then boast about it, absolute madness.

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