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"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful

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39 points ingve | 2 comments | 02 Nov 25 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source
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blindriver ◴[02 Nov 25 22:17 UTC] No.45793919[source]▶
""You don't need Kafka" considered harmful by employees of Kafka."
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redhale ◴[02 Nov 25 22:39 UTC] No.45794067[source]▶
Yes. Setting aside the specific merits of the argument, this blog post should really have a disclaimer somewhere that the author works for Confluent, a major managed Kafka service provider. Perhaps that makes him an expert on this topic, but it should still be disclosed!

> Managed services make running Kafka a very uneventful experience (pun intended) and should be the first choice

Confluent, you say?

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gunnarmorling ◴[02 Nov 25 22:50 UTC] No.45794137[source]▶
> this blog post should really have a disclaimer somewhere that the author works for Confluent

Good idea; this is stated in the bio on my web site, but I've just added the same info again to the end of the post.

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1. redhale ◴[02 Nov 25 23:29 UTC] No.45794351[source]▶
Fair point.

It might be worth adding a more direct call-out to posts like this one. Many may not go as far as reading the Bio page. That may be on them technically speaking, but still.

In any case, thank you for writing and sharing your considered opinion!

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2. gunnarmorling ◴[03 Nov 25 07:00 UTC] No.45796527[source]▶
Thank you, appreciate it!