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The "problem" is that a database as a queue doesn't infinitely scale, but nothing infinitely scales. If you're starting to reach the limits of Postgres-as-a-queue then you've either done something very wrong or very right to get to that point. It's probably more correct to say that the engineering effort required to make a Postgres-as-a-queue scale horizontally is a lot more than the engineering effort required to ma…
I thought Kafka could relatively infinitely scale
Re: River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres
#111I wouldn't categorise Kafka as a database.