Thank you for the feedback! We could definitely improve the documentation and we will expand on the "why?"; we will get an updated readme up that expands on this in more detail. Could you please tell me which part of the website clearly explained it to you such that you understood the value proposition?
I am someone who initially really struggled with understanding whatever the Kafka team thinks their explanation is. Even after working on streams and pub sub messaging I still struggle with their explanation.
However, I completely resonated and understood what you guys have built. We actually built something very similar but it was over websockets with protobuf3 just to emulate this exact behaviour. We we're using it for IoT-esque devices which send their data constantly but we needed to keep track and update certain fields when devices would connect and disconnect.
We'll be open sourcing our implementation soon. I will happily want to rebuild it with this, and maybe add a sprinkle of protobuf3 to make sure messages are type safe.
