I don’t think this is a terrible idea. It’s really the only way to know what events were before and what events were after an event across all partitions.
> On Feb 26, 2018, at 11:18 AM, Ryan Worsley <ryanthemad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I believe I have a use-case for writing a control message periodically and > transactionally to ALL partitions of a topic (so that it's totally ordered > with respect to events). > > Does anyone know if this is a terrible idea? Are there any best practices > with doing it? Is there a better, more canonical pattern for achieving it? > > Kind regards, > Ryan.
