I'm sorry for expressing ignorant perspectives and behaving narcissistically. My intention was not to call the author stupid or ask for validation of my intellect but I can see how that comes out - thank you for identifying that. I'm sorry and thank you for making it through my comment and being willing to point my failure out to me. I really appreciate it.

I'm actually quite interested in the topic of stream processing and eventual consistency. I was one of the contributors to an open source stream processing based project that won architectural awards at a reasonably big conference, spent a little time working in a machine learning oriented startup based on stream processing with some of the creators of Apache Beam/DataFlow, and now my daily labor is implementing stream processing in another startup. This area of systems design (event sourcing specifically) has been an a bit of professional obsession and labor of love for me over the last five years or so now.

I very clearly failed to express any of that in my post. I further clearly failed to manage my emotional reaction to the article and threw anything useful I may have had an opportunity to add under the bus of my words. I'm sorry for that too.

Again - Thank you very much for helping me grow. I keep working on being a better human and appreciate the help.