Comment by AtlasBarfed

But one of the golden rules of databases is to not use them as queues/integration.

Granted I didn't even read the main article because it seems like such a casual headline.

Edit post-read: yeah, using it as a CI jobs database. He lists the alternatives, but seriously, Kafka? Kafka is for linear scaling pub/sub. This guy has a couple CI jobs infrequently run.

Sure this works if the entire thing is throwaway for a non critical pub/sub system.

"It's possible to scale Postgres to storing a billion 1KB rows entirely in memory - This means you could quickly run queries against the full name of everyone on the planet on commodity hardware and with little fine-tuning."

Yeah just because it can does not mean it is suited for this purpose.

Don't do this for any integration at even medium scale.