Notifications during office hours by default hurts it - instead of people not sending messages outside work hours, everyone just uses something else for notifications.
This comment is going to rile up many, but I haven't found anyone to show me even a half-ass scientific study to show that any of these things make anything better.
one top of mind example is event streaming like kafka. sure it has benefits but as soon as start using streams like a WAL and turn your application into a database with ACID guarantees you’re going to blanket regret going with event streaming. you might call that user error but enterprise support won’t tell you stop using it that way
Probably not snake oil. Though maybe better to supplement with the extracts directly