A Postgres Alternative to Kafka

22 points by 05bmckay 10 months ago | 3 comments
  • com 10 months ago
    Does anybody have experience using this in a real-world setting?

    I can understand the desire to never, ever have to deal with Zookeeper again, but does the ergonomics promise of sequin hold up?

    • tracker1 10 months ago
      I've done similar things with PostgreSQL and MS-SQL, and it's worked fine for relatively active queues/events/streams, etc. In particular email queues, where the rendered body is captured in the DB, so it can be displayed as-is in an email link itself, or for an sms message link.

      It will really depend on your needs... do you have tens, hundreds... or millions of messages a second you need to process? Is this bursty or constant?

    • 05bmckay 10 months ago
      Sequin is a message stream built on Postgres. Unlike a queue, Sequin persists messages so that you can spin up consumers to ingest data at any time. It's comparable to Kafka, but easier to run and use.
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