Stories by enether
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's the “just use Postgres” camp for simpler use cases.<p>I’m trying to make sense of...
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.
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/TB<p>- 2011: $125/TB<p>- 2...
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's your take?
How KIP-881 and KIP-392 Reduce Inter-AZ Networking Costs in Classic Kafka
(getkafkanated.substack.com)