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by alexandercrohde·9y ago·view on hn ↗
Here's a radical solution. Instead of becoming a scala pro akka stream 200k engineer with a cluster of kafka nodes that costs your company over $100,000 of engineering time, technical debt, opportunity cost, and server costs, just put it all in bigtable, with deduping by id....

Enough of resume-driven-engineering, why does every need to reinvent the wheel?

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Yup. Databases, whether relational or not, have been designed to solve all these problems in a much more "bulletproof" way than your piddly [1] several-dozen-engineer team could ever manage, no matter how genius they are.

[1] No disrespect meant - just a description of size. Source: running a piddly 2-person engineering team.