Peter (the author) is a really, really cool guy. We recorded a 3hr 30m podcast[0] with him a month ago. For anyone interested in the Kafka space, performance optimization in Rust and the general "why yet another Kafka", I'd shamelessly recommend the video:
to be fair, Kafka now has a GraalVM docker image[0][1] which was made for local dev/testing, and it has caught up fairly well to these alternatives re: memory and startup time
Bluesky is a left-leaning political mess - I strictly follow tech-only accounts yet get posts on the timeline about what this week's monstrous White House act was. This is not a judgement against the left, but rather against Bluesky.
As another example - the Bitcoin/cypherpunk community went to Nostr. Nostr today is the same slop as Bitcoin Twitter was before. It has a tiny bit more of an organic feel to it - but it basically spiralled to the same cookie-cutter attention-grabbing content. Things like mindless cat videos.
X as we know is already problematic.
Basically the current state is that all platforms suck
I did some research with it, and used it to help create the ASCII art a bit. That's about it.
I was afraid that adding the emoji would trigger someone to think it's AI.
In any case, nowadays I basically always get at least one comment calling me an AI on a post that's relatively popular. I assume it's more a sign of the times than the writing...
Thank you for the clarification! I'm sorry for engaging in the LLM hunt, I don't usually do. Please keep writing, this was a really good breakdown!
In hindsight, I would not even have thought about it if not for the comment I replied to. LLM prose fail to make me read whole paragraphs and I find myself skipping roughly the second half of every paragraph, which was definitely not the case for your article. I did somewhat skip at the emoji heading, not because of LLMs, but because of a saturation of emojis in some contexts that don't really need them.
I should have written "this could be LLM assisted" instead of "this more feels like LLM assisted", but well words.
Again, sorry, don't get discouraged by the LLM witch hunt.
I’m about ready to start flagging every comment that complains about the source material being LLM-generated. It’s tiresome, pointless, and adds absolutely nothing useful to the discussion.
If the material is wrong, explain why. Otherwise, shut up.
I was definitely unaware. I suspected something like this may be up when I talked about the zero-review of the apparent PR "I’m not aware of Mongo’s public review practices". This is great to know though. Updating the piece now to mention this and explain the date discrepancy
For Rust-based Kafka alternatives, I like Tansu[1]. It at least provides Kafka API parity, and critically also gives users a pluggable backend (embedded SQLite, S3 for low cost diskless type workloads and Postgres because just use Postgres)
It’s nice to try and out innovate Kafka, but I fear the network effect can’t be beaten unless the alternative is 10x better.
Something like Warpstream’s architecture[2] had a shot at dethroning Kafka, but critically even they adopted the Kafka API. Sure enough, Apache Kafka introduced a competing feature[3] within two years of warpstreams launch too.
[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJQ7hcsI1Dw
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