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You don’t need Kafka: Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres What canceled my Go context? Notes on Writing Wasm Go 1.26 interactive tour It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres The “Use the Right Tool” Trap You’ve heard the advice: “Use the right tool for the right job.” Sounds wise. So you end up with: Elasticsearch for search Pinecone for vectors Redis for caching MongoDB for documents Kafka for queues InfluxDB for time-series PostgreSQL for… the stuff that’s left Here’s what most people don’t realize: Postgres extensions use the same or better algorithms as specialized databases (in many cases).