Re:Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
by munchbunny on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:32PM
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> Is there something about load balancing REST requests to different DB nodes that is less complicated than Kafka?
To be clear I wasn't talking about DB nodes, I was talking about skipping an explicit queue altogether.
But let's say you were asking about load balancing REST requests to different backend servers:
Yes, in the sense that "load balanced REST microservice with retry logic" is such a common pattern that is better understood by SWE's and SRE's everywhere.
No, in the sense that if you really did just need a distributed queue then your life would be simpler reusing a battle-tested implementation instead of reinventing that wheel.
To be clear I wasn't talking about DB nodes, I was talking about skipping an explicit queue altogether.
But let's say you were asking about load balancing REST requests to different backend servers:
Yes, in the sense that "load balanced REST microservice with retry logic" is such a common pattern that is better understood by SWE's and SRE's everywhere.
No, in the sense that if you really did just need a distributed queue then your life would be simpler reusing a battle-tested implementation instead of reinventing that wheel.