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Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

290 points · 112 comments · elffjs

  1. ipkstef · · focus · HN ↗
    i was trying to understand why i would use this over their current offerings of queues, and im really sick so my brain isn't working. so i ran it through ai

      You need...                                            | Use
      -------------------------------------------------------|-------
      “Make sure this job gets done”                         | Queue
      retries / dead-letter handling                         | Queue
      delayed jobs                                           | Queue
      distribute jobs among workers                          | Queue
      “Record that this event happened”                      | K2
      multiple independent systems reading the same events   | K2
      replay old events                                      | K2
      ordered event streams                                  | K2
      Kafka-like architecture                                | K2
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