Stateful Application as a Service

As an application developer, I want Confluent to provide me with a fully managed Kafka environment (KaaS) so I can point my current Kafka producer and consumer clients at KaaS and forget about the complexities of operating a complex stateful system.

It is safe to assume that the only tunable that KaaS customers have to convey to the KaaS provider (i.e., you) are data throughput, reliability, plus data retention and the rest will be taken care of by the system you are designing.