Understanding the limitations of Pubsub systems

7 points by typesanitizer


BenjaminRi

Finally someone who spells it out. Intuitively, all of this is obvious from the first second you use pubsub systems, the whole "well the messages probably arrive, let's ignore all the distributed systems problems"-thinking and flakiness. But now I have a paper to point to that is pretty well-written.

ryan-duve

Pubsub’s first limitation is a Kafka-esque interpretation of "decoupling".

Now I'm wondering how many more of these I missed.