> One camp chases buzzwords .. the other common sense
How is it common sense to try to re-implement Kafka in Posgres? You probably need something similar but more simple. Then implement that! But if you really need something like Kafka, then .. use Kafka!
IMO the author is now making the same mistake as some Kafka evangelists that try to implement a database in Kafka.
I’m making the example of a pub sub system. I’m most familiar with Kafka so drew parallels to it. I didn’t actually implement everything Kafka offers - just two simple pub sub like queries.