Have you seen AutoMQ's approach(https://github.com/AutoMQ/automq)? It is hard to believe that users can tolerate a produce message latency of hundreds of milliseconds with WarpStream. As the Co-founder & CEO of AutoMQ, we have engaged with hundreds of users, many of whom are seeking both speed and reliability. So We require a stateless broker solution that is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, while also excelling in terms of low latency and cost effectiveness on cloud infrastructure.