So much this! As someone that regularly deals with data platforms and data engineering issues this nails it.

Today’s desire to make everything event driven and “real-time” boggles the mind. Solutions are contorted to fit the Kafka operating model.

The inevitable result is blog posts about how “we solved our self inflicted problems that would have never existed if we chose a sane design for our real problem. “

Oh and never forget that no senior stake holder ever really checks their info/dashboards in real time. Never mind actually making decisions in real time based on it.