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		bionhoward 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch? step 1: don’t use the JVM

openplatypus 7 months ago | [–]

Don't use best platform engineered and perfected over decades?

Why?

Sohcahtoa82 7 months ago | | [–]

It's not the 90s anymore. The JVM is very performant.

pas 7 months ago | | [–]

Yes, but if you can use compile-time (arena or otherwise) allocation then you can go even faster, no?

nthingtohide 7 months ago | [–]

do you think Grafana made the right choice by using Golang ?

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