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Stream Processing

Processing unbounded event streams with windowing and exactly-once semantics (Flink, Kafka Streams, Spark Structured Streaming).

conceptPeak: 2018StreamingAI consensus: 0/3

Prerequisites

mediumApache Kafka
Streams are typically consumed from a log like Kafka.
mediumEvent-Driven Architecture
Stream processing realizes event-driven systems.

Recommended reference

Streaming Systems — Akidau, Chernyak & Lax (O'Reilly)

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