/tags/kafka/ Recent bookmarks tagged #kafka Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:57 +0000 https://www.diljitpr.net/blog-post-postgresql-dlq The goal was never to replace Kafka with PostgreSQL. Kafka remained the backbone for high-throughput event ingestion, while PostgreSQL handled what it does best—durability, querying, and observability around failures. By letting each system play to its strengths, we ended up with a pipeline that was resilient, debuggable, and easy to operate. In the end, using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue turned failure handling into something boring and predictable. And in production systems, boring is exactly what you want.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #db #events #kafka #postgresql</p> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:19:20 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:38231 db events kafka postgresql