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		jen20 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres That is the major difference - clients track their read offsets rather than the structure removing messages. There aren't really "listeners" in the sense of a pub-sub?

munchbunny 4 months ago [–]

> There aren't really "listeners" in the sense of a pub-sub?

They are still "listeners", it's that events aren't pushed to the listener. Instead the API is designed for sheer throughput.

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