Exactly on point. Shit happens, performance bugs appear, someone messes up Kafka config and it starts consuming from the beginning of the world, etc. Limiting C

Exactly on point. Shit happens, performance bugs appear, someone messes up Kafka config and it starts consuming from the beginning of the world, etc. Limiting CPU is a must. I could see maybe if someone has a super good monitoring + oncall response team, then letting things go loose for a bit is a lesser evil than working out limits, but still.