Kafka
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Nov 2, 2025first mention
Oct 7, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I don't know the internals of Kafka, RabbitMQ, or PostgreSQL. I just know how to use them. And yet they work fine.”
on-site programmeron “The Tower Keeps Rising”
“Because you can throw lava at it and it will eat it.”
runs Kafka clusters in productionon “I Replaced Kafka, Redis, and RabbitMQ with One Tool …”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
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All comments 5
“PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis”
“I don't know the internals of Kafka, RabbitMQ, or PostgreSQL. I just know how to use them. And yet they work fine.”
“If I am at the scale where I really want Kafka, it is probably for performance and I just can't believe there's anyway Postgres could provide that.”
“Because you can throw lava at it and it will eat it.”
“Use a system like Kafka if you need what it brings (a distributed event streaming platform).”