As someone who has never built a system that had to account for serious backpressure, I am 100% sure it will bite me in the ass in the near future, no matter how seriously I try to control for it. This definitely feels like one of those concepts you pay a tuition in pain for.
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Replying to @generativist
oh man. first time you encounter someone whose answer to every performance problem is "just throw it on a queue and process it asynchronously!" you realise how bad it can get...
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Replying to @mwotton
For me that encounter took place with myself several weeks ago haha. "Just sprinkle Kafka on it" does not a robust system make, apparently.
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