Do you want a single binary with Postgres/Clickhouse/Kafka built it? Because that's what their Docker Compose is setting up.

+1. Wanted to jump in to say that the kafka dependency is strictly optional. It's used to batch writes to clickhouse, but for less intensive workloads Dittofeed can use clickhouse's asynchronous inserts for in-memory batching.

Offering a single executable binary is definitely great, but wouldn't be super practical given our choice of technologies. Tradeoffs.

Nothing forces you to use Docker, it's just their documented happy path because it's popular.

Curious why?

Some people are annoyed with the way Docker (the company) has tried to monetize the technology by revoking free repos from open-source teams. If I recall, Docker doubled back on that.

Realistically, Docker is a fine choice for this.

Not just that. I don't want to run 3 layers of operating systems to then run the program.