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IBM to acquire Confluent

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443 points abd12 | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 13:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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zkmon ◴[08 Dec 25 14:43 UTC] No.46192765[source]▶
Kafka is already past it's prime time. Time for new solutions for the oldest problem - sending a message.
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spyspy ◴[08 Dec 25 15:13 UTC] No.46193131[source]▶
I'm still convinced the vast majority of kafka implementations could be replaced with `SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY timestamp ASC`
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fatal94 ◴[08 Dec 25 15:42 UTC] No.46193568[source]▶
Sure, if you're working on a small homelab with minimal to no processing volume.

The second you approach any kind of scale, this falls apart and/or you end up with a more expensive and worse version of Kafka.

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1. raverbashing ◴[08 Dec 25 16:17 UTC] No.46194109[source]▶
"Any kind of scale" No, there's a long way of better and more straightforward solutions than the simple SELECT

(SELECT * from EVENTS where TIMESTAMP > LAST_TS LIMIT 50) for example