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Comment by Spivak

8 months ago

For read only queries, hammer away I can scale reads nigh infinitely horizontally. There's no secret sauce that makes it so that only kafka can do this.

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throwaway7783  7 months ago

It's not about scaling reads, but coordinating consumers so no more than one consumer processes same messages. That means some kind of locking, that means scaling issues.

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