alexwebr

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   by alexwebr 2y ago

   (Author here) Fair enough. I agree .25^20 is basically infinitesimal, and even with a smaller exponent (like .25^3) the odds are not great, so I appreciate you calling this out. Flipping this around, though, if you have 4 workers total and
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   by alexwebr 2y ago

   (Author here) You say: > What that post describes (all work going to one/few workers) in practice doesn't really happen if you properly randomize (e.g. just use random UUID) ID of the item/task when inserting it into Kafka
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   by alexwebr 2y ago

   (Author here) RabbitMQ or AWS SQS are probably good choices.
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   Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get?(broot.ca)

   133 points by alexwebr 2y ago|139 comments