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		kermatt 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres To the issue of complexity, is Redpanda suitable as a "single node implementation" where a Kafka cluster is not needed due to data volume, but the Kafka message bus pattern is desired? AKA "Medium Data" ?

cestith 5 months ago [–]

Yes. I’ve run projects where it was used that way.

It also scales to very large clusters.

enether 5 months ago | [–]

Can you give some examples? I'm super curious about single-node Kafka use cases in general

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