It seems like everywhere I look on the internet these days, somebody’s making some form of the following argument:

You don’t need distributed systems! Computers are so fast these days you can serve all your customers off a single machine!

This argument is silly and reductive.

But first, let’s look for the kernel of truth.

One Machine Is All You Need?

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Demystifying the public status process.

A lightweight message queue. Like AWS SQS and RSMQ but on Postgres.

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