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Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough

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    Carighan
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    This is firmly in the "thanks I hate it"-territory, but of course intentionally so. Fun exercise. Reminds me of how my company built a topic-based event bus on top of a point-to-point...

    This is firmly in the "thanks I hate it"-territory, but of course intentionally so. Fun exercise.

    Reminds me of how my company built a topic-based event bus on top of a point-to-point architecture, then in turn made one topic for each service-to-service routing so in effect it's a point-to-point message system again. Just because it was possible, someone had to try it out! For science!

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    1. overbyte
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      Reminds me of kube-virt when I first read about that project. So here we run Kubernetes to essentially abstract away the pools of servers underneath, then we set this thing up so you can run...

      Reminds me of kube-virt when I first read about that project.

      So here we run Kubernetes to essentially abstract away the pools of servers underneath, then we set this thing up so you can run *checks notes* VMs on Kubernetes.

      I'm sure it has its uses.

      4 votes