Every Day We Stray Further From Kafka

Message queue kafka Rabbitmq postgresql database Distributed systems Google sheets Architecture

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Every Day We Stray Further From Kafka

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The descending brain power meme format perfectly captures the devolution of message queue solutions. RabbitMQ? Sure, solid choice. PostgreSQL as a queue? Questionable but functional. In-memory struct? Getting sketchy. But using Google Sheets as a message queue? That's galaxy brain territory right there. Someone out there is polling a spreadsheet every 500ms and calling it "distributed architecture." The API rate limits are just natural backpressure, obviously. Franz Kafka didn't write about existential dread and bureaucratic nightmares for us to turn collaborative spreadsheets into event streaming platforms, yet here we are.

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