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		jdswain 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres What sort of systems do you work on to require this kind of traffic volume? I've worked on one project that I'd consider relatively high volume (UK Post Office Horizon Online) and we were only targeting 500 TPS.

saberience 5 months ago [–]

Think extremely popular multiplayer videogames. We used these systems for all the backend infra, logins, logouts, chat messages, purchases.

We often had millions of players online at a given moment which means lots of transactions!

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