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Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres (topicpartition.io)
Why was Apache Kafka created? (bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)
Ask HN: What's your go-to message queue in 2025?
The space is confusing to say the least.<p>Message queues are usually a core part of any distributed architecture, and the options are endless: Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, Redis Streams, SQS, ZeroMQ... and then there&#x27;s the “just use Postgres” camp for simpler use cases.<p>I’m trying to make sense of...
KIP-1150: Diskless Kafka Topics (cwiki.apache.org)
What would it take for Bitcoin to fail?
Serious question.<p>It has been called dead so many times, but I am beginning to think that due to the network effect, switching costs and increasing rate of adoption it would take a black swan event to take it down.
Should we expect S3 to lower prices?
S3 last lowered its price 8 years ago. Since then, HDD cost have lowered by *at least* 60%.[1]<p>That’s an annual decrease of 13%. Imagine your S3 bill went down by that amount every year.<p>Here is a brief history of S3 storage cost, in us-east-2:<p>- 2010: $150&#x2F;TB<p>- 2011: $125&#x2F;TB<p>- 2...
Why Not? (wesmckinney.com)
Why Kafka and Iceberg Will Define the Next Decade of Data Infrastructure (blog.streambased.io)
I Lowered the CO2 in My House (christian.gen.co)
Mutually Beneficial Group Lies (stanislavkozlovski.com)
Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying Confluent (tinybird.co)
Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a Free T3.micro (AWS Free Tier) (blog.tansu.io)
When to Use a Columnar Database (tinybird.co)
Kafka is Topping Out (as a business) (bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)
No one will tell you the real cost of Kafka (2024) (blog.2minutestreaming.com)
Sonnet 4.5 ranks #25 (below other Claude models) in generating SQL (tinybird.co)
Iceberg Topics for Kafka (aiven.io)
Snowflake reportedly eyeing a Redpanda acquisition (investors.com)
Have you ever went out of your way to optimize for taxes?
We hear a lot about people nowadays fleeing their home country, renouncing citizenship in certain (US) case, and adopting a low-tax jurisdiction.<p>There are a ton of trade-offs with such a decision, including moral concerns that some people have.<p>What&#x27;s your take?
How KIP-881 and KIP-392 Reduce Inter-AZ Networking Costs in Classic Kafka (getkafkanated.substack.com)
Confluent Explores Sale (reuters.com)
Neoq – a queue-agnostic background job library for Go (github.com)
Cheap Kafka is cool. Schema-driven development with Kafka is cooler (buf.build)
Why Open Source Software Should Invest in Evangelism (2018) (stanislavkozlovski.medium.com)
AWS Data Transfer Costs in 2 Minutes (blog.2minutestreaming.com)