Feature request as per

https://blog.softwaremill.com/event-sourcing-using-kafka-53dfd72ad45d

"Hence, we need a better way. That’s where kafka-streams and state stores come into play. Kafka-streams applications run across a cluster of nodes, which jointly consume some topics."

This way, the concepts of "entity" from akka persistence and "runtime state" from event stores complement each other.
Ideally akka persistence runtime would not be necessary to run aecor.