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Re:Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres by Tycho on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:04PM (#45761546)
What were you working on that had trillions of events per hour?
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Re:Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres by munchbunny on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:27PM (#45761844)
An internal data lake at a FAANG company. I don't really want to go into more detail for my own privacy, but it was definitely the kind of problem you only have when you have a FAANG-sized footprint.
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