Did that here: https://kafscale.io/comparison/ - mainly k8s native, easy ops, direct decoupling of brokers and data streaming processing, 100% open source. Much cheaper to operate in a cloud.

Right. It boils down to federated learning on edge to have access to relevant data.

Controversy article, but digging deeper - especially the rants from CZ against competitors - it looks not so good, as for the whole industry. I bet crypto.com and / or Binance are the next and last one in this consolidation period.

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