Clearly you are in USA. It’s not how their business works and Startups are not their target. Lobbying governments across the world with questionable practices are
So perhaps don’t use kafka at all? E.g. Adyen used postgresql [1] as a queue until the outgrew.
In this case it seems there are a lot of things that can go south in case of major issue on the event pipeline. Unless the throughput is low.. but then why kafka?
Citroen ec4 (with heatpump)
WLTP: 350km
ev-database: 260km
Short city distances (5-10km) in summer: 310km
Short city distnces (5-10km) at -4 Celcius: 100km
wltp is a joke.
Guessometer is a joke.
Range with ev in winter is a joke.