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septune on March 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective

Forget MQTT, Redis as a PUB/SUB will do 99% of the job most of the time.

jck on March 14, 2023 [–]

Redis 7 supports sharded pubsub.

Also, redis streams are excellent and perform really well for Kafka lite type use cases.

Gwypaas on March 14, 2023 | [–]

Until you need backpressure, then you are left with awful out-of-band hacks and hope for the best.

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