Ok, yeah, their marketing speak fooled me. I thought they were more like Spark, BEAM, etc. I still think the "Kafka or /tmp" framing of the article is a straw

Ok, yeah, their marketing speak fooled me. I thought they were more like Spark, BEAM, etc. I still think the "Kafka or /tmp" framing of the article is a straw man, though. There's plenty of options in between depending on the requirements.