[LgWoodenBadger]

There's not just one reason for it.

Kafka lets dependent consumers transform that data into whatever model is appropriate for their use case. There's no one-size-fits-all E-R model for data for all use cases.

It's not just working around db migrations. It's also providing you with the ability to model the data as many ways as you require. How else would you do it, materialized views? How often are they materialized? Regular views? How performant are they?

There are many benefits to this approach, and a lot of them require a different way of thinking. It's a different paradigm.

[dreamfactored]

Isn't that just skinny model, fat client?