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This guest post comes from Neha Narkhede, co-founder and CTO at Confluent, a startup focused on Apache Kafka and founded by its creators. Data systems in the modern world aren't islands that stand on ...

Streaming data records are typically small, measured in mere kilobytes, but the stream often goes on and on without ever stopping. Streaming data, also called event stream processing, is usually ...

Previously, we introduced streaming, saw some of the benefits it can bring and discussed some of the architectural options and vendors / engines that can support streaming-oriented solutions. We now ...