[jiaaro]

The blog post mentions that partitions are too low-level an abstraction to program against. Does that mean WarpStream doesn't use partitions?

Do you provide any ordering guarantees like Kafka does at the partition level?

[richieartoul]

(WarpStream founder) No WarpStream has partitions internally and provides the same ordering guarantees Kafka does at the partition level. We're just saying that we think for most streaming applications this is not a great programming model, and we think there is an opportunity to do something better (but we haven't done that yet).

[necubi]

Do you still provide low-level control over partition subscriptions and offset management? Any plan to support Kafka transactions?

That's all required to build exactly-once systems on top of Kafka (like the stateful stream processing engine I work on) even if it's not the easiest interface for normal application-level development.