I know this is unrelated to the actual content, but I have such a visceral reaction to any headline in the "x is different than you think"... how do you know what I think? I am sure many people who read this will be experts on tides, and the title is completely wrong.

For me, the worst are posts about scale and things I won't need, like "You don't need kafka" or "your data isn't actually big data" or "don't horizontally scale, just get a bigger server"

I get that I am not the target audience and there are people for whom those statements are true, but I am running Kafka clusters with data from 10s of thousands of servers, I absolutely can't move that to a single machine.

I wish they would phrase it as "Tides are weirder than most people think", although that probably doesn't drive as much engagement.