Comment Comment by PeterCorless Exactly. Just yesterday someone posted how they can do 250k messages/second with Redpanda (Kafka-compatible implementation) on their laptop.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CdM1WcuoLcGetting even less than that throughput on 3x c7i.24xlarge — a total of 288 vCPUs – is bafflingly wasteful.Just because you can do something with Postgres doesn't mean you should.> 1. One camp chases buzzwords.> 2. The other camp chases common senseIn this case, is "Postgres" just being used as a buzzword?[Disclosure: I work for Redpanda; we provide a Kafka-compatible service.] parent PeterCorless 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CdM1WcuoLc
Getting even less than that throughput on 3x c7i.24xlarge — a total of 288 vCPUs – is bafflingly wasteful.
Just because you can do something with Postgres doesn't mean you should.
> 1. One camp chases buzzwords.
> 2. The other camp chases common sense
In this case, is "Postgres" just being used as a buzzword?
[Disclosure: I work for Redpanda; we provide a Kafka-compatible service.]