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Re:Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres by jen20 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @03:15AM (#45757232)
That is the major difference - clients track their read offsets rather than the structure removing messages. There aren't really "listeners" in the sense of a pub-sub?
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Re:Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres by munchbunny on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:22PM (#45761768)
> There aren't really "listeners" in the sense of a pub-sub?

They are still "listeners", it's that events aren't pushed to the listener. Instead the API is designed for sheer throughput.

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