Since this is taking off a bit: Here's an excellent talk that provides some context to the Confluent article, and takes us through the thought process of simpli

Since this is taking off a bit: Here's an excellent talk that provides some context to the Confluent article, and takes us through the thought process of simplifying convoluted database-cache-user interactions by thinking in terms of streams of derived data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0 . Also highly recommended.