On: You Are Not Google (2017)

[mrkeen]

> I understand that Kafka is still useful for lower throughput workloads, but 10 orders of magnitude lower.

Should we stop using MySQL too? That handles more data than I have.

[redhale → mrkeen]

I think a good analogy might be using MySQL for storing a single key/value. You could do it, but why? Instead you could just use an environment variable or simple file.