The crab and the giants
I finally benchmarked Narad against Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, Redis, and Pulsar on identical hardware, ran a Jepsen-style test against my own broker, stole a ten-year-old trick from RabbitMQ's source code, and shipped a 2× speedup that evaporated the moment it touched production hardware. A story about measurement, humility, and standing on shoulders.


