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by Zandikar 1004 days ago
FTA's conclusion: "If you are handling thousands of messages a day, a simple database-driven queue might be better than Kafka."

They're not trying to say "thousands of messages a day" is a lot, but rather not. Or at the very least, they're saying that at that scale, it is not significant enough to merit the complexity they were dealing with.