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Exactly this, every time I see kafka or similar its a web of 10M microprocesses that take more time in invocation alone than if you just ran the program in one go.

How very kafkaesque.

Nomen est omen.

Eh, they scale between $1000 and $10000 per month fairly easily. I’m not sure about the requests though.

I watched in amusement as the architecture team at $JOB eagerly did a PoC of a distributed RDBMS, only to eventually conclude that the latency was too high. Gee… if only someone had told you that would happen when you mentioned the idea. Oh wait.