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1. addisonj · 1790876132 · focus · HN ↗

   Congrats on the launch! Stream/event-based system are really powerful, but they are also just pretty complex, in no small part because the modeling of streams for most people today is really modeling Kafka topic/partitions which has a whole bunch of foot-guns and complexity. Making the individual stream really cheap and easy is a big simplification, especially if flexibly consuming a stream for both ordered and unordered use-cases is made simple. This looks to work for unordered, be curious to see how the managed dividing the work for the mentioned key-based ordering.

   1. someonebaggy · 1790886634 · focus · HN ↗

      Kafka works the way it does for a reason. I don't see how Cloudflare can avoid the same fundamental limits that Kafka faces.

      1. Kinrany · 1790963046 · focus · HN ↗

         Discovering the limits is not trivial though, and they also change as hardware changes?

         1. someonebaggy · 1791039382 · focus · HN ↗

            Kafka doesn't really hardcode any limits though.

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