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Every Day We Stray Further From Kafka

Backend Devops Programming Databases Cloud

2 days ago 139.7K views 0 shares

Every Day We Stray Further From Kafka

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.

All Hail The True Database King

Databases Programming Backend

3 months ago 271.7K views 0 shares

All Hail The True Database King

Ah, the eternal throne room of data storage, where CSV sits as the reluctant monarch. While Postgres kneels before the throne with actual database capabilities, Excel and HyperCard stand guard like knights who peaked in high school. Meanwhile, Google Sheets, Access, and Airtable huddle on the floor like peasants who think they'll someday be invited to dinner. The real joke? We all complain about CSV's lack of typing, relations, and basic sanity checks, yet it's outlived every "proper" database solution we've thrown at it. It's the cockroach of data formats - nuclear war wouldn't kill it, just create more variants with inconsistent delimiters.