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You’ve been told Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY doesn’t scale and that you need Kafka for real workloads. The data proves otherwise: it handles 60K+ notifications per second. The bottleneck isn’t the database—it’s developers misusing it as a message bus. Send an ID, not a payload, and watch it thrive.
Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is still transmitting data from interstellar space after 48 years. Its secret? Deliberate over-engineering: nuclear batteries, redundant thrusters, and radiation-proof tape drives. Modern tech, obsessed with efficiency and planned obsolescence, has much to learn from this ‘wasteful’ 1970s design.
A guy pressurized his chicken coop to blow out the mess. It’s not efficient, it’s not safe, and it’s absolutely brilliant. This article argues that over-engineering everyday tasks isn’t a waste—it’s a creative act that reminds us problem-solving can be fun. Embrace the absurd, skip the broom, and learn why the wrong tool is sometimes the right one.