perfectspiral

This is a proposal to extend Kafka to (better) handle queueing use cases: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A...

"For example, a queue is perfect for a situation in which messages are independent work items that can be processed concurrently by a pool of applications, and individually retried or acknowledged as processing completes. This is much easier to achieve using a queue rather than a partitioned topic with a consumer group."

How do you know it would have worked out better with UUIDs? Did you load test it? What's the size of your dataset?

"Wouldn't this mean that capital is flowing in..."

Not really. If the price of shares in your company goes up it doesn't mean you have more cash in your pocket. You would need to sell shares or issue additional shares to have more cash to pay people with. There's other ways an increased price could be beneficial of course.

Agreed and in my experience libraries like this perpetuate that anti-pattern. Inexperienced developers think because there's a library that enables it, it must be OK, right?

I don't know about Postgres but a MySQL container can take at least a few seconds to start up and report back as healthy on a Macbook Pro. You can just purge tables on the existing database in between tests, no need to start up a whole new database server each time.

Why is the alternative to serverless, colocating servers in a DC?

The alternative is renting VMs from those same clouds. It works fine and is cheaper when you work on software that actually has users. It also doesn't result in the cloud provider cramming a crappy under-baked programming model down your throat.

Per request pricing and "scaling to zero" is just old fashioned unbundling. You are selling a smaller quantity of a product at a higher unit price and putting a bit of lipstick on that pig to convince people they are not getting hosed.

The Citus extension is still open-source though, right? Although I think it was a solid strategic move by MSFT to acquihire the Citus devs (probably all these people were given substantial golden handcuffs) to block AWS from hiring experts to integrate this extension into their PG offering.