We're trying to address a real problem that is happening in our industry: VPs of eng and principal engineers at startups are adopting the "Kappa Architecture" / "Turning the Database Inside Out", without realizing how much functionality from traditional database systems they are leaving behind. This has led to a barrage of consistency bugs in everything from food-delivery apps to the "unread message count" in LinkedIn. We're at the peak of the hype cycle for Kafka, and it's being used in all kinds of places it doesn't belong. For 99% of companies, a traditional DBMS is the right foundation.