Tag: Kafka

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Choosing an Event Mechanism for a Data Platform

Choose event delivery by semantics, not product names. Compare SSE, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Pulsar and AutoMQ by durability, replay and failure behavior.

By Julien Laurenceau, 5 days2026-09-30 ago

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Which Message Broker for IoT and Real-Time Control

Choose a message broker for real-time IoT control: start from the latency budget, test ack mode and packet loss, and when to skip the broker for UDP.

By Julien Laurenceau, 1 month2026-08-22 ago

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Choosing the Right Storage Backend for Kubernetes PVCs

Choosing a PVC backend is an architecture decision I review; the Ceph storage consulting page describes the cluster side. Most discussions about PVC focus on on-prem deployments, but many of these technologies are equally relevant in the cloud, especially when using managed block storage like AWS EBS, which caps at Read more

By Julien Laurenceau, 10 months2025-12-15 ago