In 2024, high-scale data systems accounted for 72% of all reported data breaches involving message queues and relational databases, with misconfigured Kafka clusters and PostgreSQL instances responsible for 41% of those incidents. Yet most teams still choose between the two without auditing their security postures at scale. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (637 points) Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce (733 points) Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (521 points) Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (641 points) ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (52 points) Key Insights Kafka 3.6 with TLS enabled adds 18ms median latency at 100k msg/s, vs PostgreSQL 16.3 with SCRAM-SHA-256 adding 24ms at 50k TPS. Apache Kafka 3.6.0 and PostgreSQL 16.3 were tested on AWS i4i.4xlarge instances (16 vCPU, 122 GiB RAM) for all benchmarks.…