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Tade0 65 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Control the Ideas, Not the Code

To be honest until today I thought Kafka was the popular go-to Redis replacement, as almost none of my employers used Redis for its original, intended purpose, namely being an in-memory key-value store. What they really wanted was RabbitMQ.

inigyou 65 days ago [–]

Kafka does a completely different thing than Redis.

Tade0 65 days ago | [–]

Indeed. Doesn't change the fact that people have been using Redis where they could well have used Kafka.

Hell, I did that in a previous project.

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