Hacker Timesnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

> Queues like Kafka can be great for a certain class of solution, but I see them over used.

> The justification is usually a sort of handwave about scaling, but I tend to be skeptical of that argument.

actually this sort of solution is a great fit to GPGPU, where each thread has some kind of a "window" and will perform N aligned accesses in a stepwise fashion to compute its particular data. Aligned/coalesced accesses and "re-computation" are very cheap in GPGPU and that often means you lean on re-computation rather than notarization or other "stateful" approaches.

I think something like this would be a great fit to AVX-512 probably.



Consider applying for YC's Summer 2026 batch! Applications are open till May 4

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: