We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka
bootlegbilly
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September 30, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (1 comments)
linehedonist
"FoundationDB was our only database, queue included. We built Apple's QuiCK design on top of it, hit the write limits, and moved async tasks to Kafka." very LLM-y.