Summary
Kafka topics serve as the delivery mechanism for fat event payloads; Kafka's compacted topics can retain the latest state per key, enabling exactly the event-carried state transfer pattern.
Evidence
- ·kafka log compaction enables event sourcing with storage efficiency (technologies/kafka.yaml architectural_advantages)
- ·event_carried_state_transfer assumes Kafka transport - respects Kafka's 1MB message limit and uses Schema Registry for fat-event schemas (patterns/event_carried_state_transfer.yaml)
Evidence grounding
Grounded, 2 supporting itemsKafka transports the fat state-bearing events; log compaction retains latest state per key.