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addisonj • today at 5:35 PM • 2 replies • view on 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.


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someonebaggy • today at 8:30 PM

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

mrkeen • today at 8:25 PM

To support the ordered use-case, put events on the same topic-partition. To support the unordered use-case, don't.