The article challenges the common belief that PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY mechanism does not scale well for high-throughput event streaming. It presents technical insights and benchmarks demonstrating that with proper architecture and connection management, this native feature can handle significant load effectively.
Background
PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY is a lightweight pub/sub mechanism often overlooked in favor of dedicated message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ due to perceived scalability limits.
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- Hacker News (RSS)
- Published
- Jul 25, 2026 at 03:05 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10