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5-hour mission? Surely something so awesome can't actually exist...

I agree with you. Remote optimizes for one set of things, using a model that works great in a low-trust environment like open source. And you can probably get pretty good results w…

Why wouldn't it? We're talking about a mortgage on the rental property itself not on the landlord's personal residence.

I do, yes, and I ask my team to do the same. Even in software development it's very helpful. It helps the team stay in sync more, reducing the need to meet. It helps me stay in syn…

I don't know if linking to one's own work is considered gauche here, but since it fits with the original question, my own book Practical Microservices fits this description ( https…

There are some similarities, and there are definitely worse technologies you could choose for a message store than Kafka. It's worth calling out the difference between event-source…

100% with you that messages are a better way for microservices to receive their input. I don't see how a service could receive its input over HTTP and still retain its autonomy. A …

In addition to what the sibling comments to this one said, Message DB solves a different problem than what queues solve. Message DB is a good fit in a microservice-based architectu…

Good question. Consumers poll for updates. One of the stored functions in Message DB is designed for this very query. Polling sounds very crude, but for the systems Message DB is d…

Message DB happens to be implemented using a RDBMS, but the streams in it end up being very clear partition points. Some thought would be required to move data to a different datab…

The technologies you listed are message brokers , while Message DB is a message store . The former transport messages, and the latter is a database specialized for storing message …

Imagine the beauty of it! Before making an in-app purchase, you'd get to fill out as much paper work as you do for a mortgage. Disclosures, acknowledgement. We could make Candy Cru…

Canonical hosts packages for Ubuntu, and they pay for that by charging for other services. Free packages means more people using Ubuntu means more people seeking enterprise support…