And Heroku has stagnated for at least 13 of those years...

They weren’t obese from the steak. It’s the beer and simple carbs.

It’s actually the opposite - you actually can. The feel I'm getting reading anti-AI sentiment is people are expect one shot results out of limited context.

I'm pretty sure that you can't gradually upgrade a shed into a skyscraper unless you pour a skyscraper-ready foundation before even starting on the shed. But if you're doing that, why start with a shed and not with a skyscraper?

Not sure why you're trying to bring AI development into this.

You can, start by clearing and grading the site - get a shed up over your head. Then you can start then start the skyscraper next to it and work out of the shed.

Are you trying to add anything to this conversation, or is this a joke?

I'm saying that you just have to start, even if it's a single line of throw-away code. The learnings along the way will guide you. That's it.

Ok. Sorry for my tone!

pgmq gets very close for a lot of Kafka use cases

It's common to do a hybrid of BM25 with other fuzzy search or pgvector.

BM25 is quite bad and needs to be retrained for each corpus anew. SPLADEv2 is much better and there are even better sparse embeddings these days.

This is the killer combo. Working on something now that uses pgmq + Elixir for DAG workflows: https://github.com/agoodway/pgflow

I prefer bit more type-safety. JVM/Kotlin/Jdbi + PG for me.

This is a good summary, though I'd love to see a "High Availability and Automated Failover" entry in that table.

In 2026, Postgres and it's ecosystem just keep getting better with the recent example of pg_textsearch (BM25). A few years ago a gist of mine blew up on hacker news (gist: https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f... thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39273954). Thought I'd turn the philosophy into a website with an easy to search directory of tools and extensions.

I'd like to see one of these in Rust (over Python, Node, etc) and in Apple's container environment.

Regarding your last comment, majority of the people here are costal with FAT paychecks slinging code for VCs. It’s a totally different universe than running a Saas. That said, still a valuable forum.