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0 pointstreis5y ago0 comments

>I think you're asking why don't we just be the hosted kafka/rabbitmq/etc and offer all of this stuff in one place.

The other way around. If I'm not storing my messages today it's probably because it is too expensive in terms of storage or compute to do so. But, presumably, you can't do that any cheaper than I can. And now we are duplicating the work so even more resources are being consumed making it that much more expensive than just doing it myself.

It seems like your service is something I'd want to run pointed towards my Kafka/RabbitMQ/whatever servers. I don't see how duplicating that stream is cost effective.

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dsies5y ago

Ahh gotcha. If you need event introspection, doing it in-house is extremely likely to be more expensive (and definitely time consuming) than offloading it.

For example: if you are sending serialized data on your bus - you will need to write something that will deserialize it before inserting it into your elastic search cluster - and now you're managing even more infra (message systems, decoders, document storage).

There is definitely a price attached to the luxury - but we're betting that it'll be significantly less than doing it yourself.

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