Stream Processing

When NOT to Use Stream Processing: Messaging and APIs Are Often Enough

Confluent rearchitected Control Center away from its Kafka Streams metrics pipeline. Kestra 2.0 rebuilt its queuing layer around plain queueing.…

2 months ago

Kafka vs Flink vs Spark: Do You Really Need Real-Time?

Most vendors sell milliseconds, but most enterprise use cases do not need them. A critical look at Kafka, Flink, Spark,…

3 months ago

Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Apache Flink: What It Is and When (Not) to Use It

Complex Event Processing is the most underused capability in Apache Flink. It detects meaningful event sequences in real time, fires…

6 months ago

Stream Processing on the Mainframe with Apache Flink: Genius or a Glitch in the Matrix?

Running Apache Flink on a mainframe may sound surprising, but it is already happening and for good reason. As modern…

10 months ago

The Future of Data Streaming with Apache Flink for Agentic AI

Agentic AI is moving into production. Autonomous, tool-using, goal-driven systems that need real-time data and context. Apache Kafka and Flink…

1 year ago

Confluent Data Streaming Platform vs. Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for Data Integration and Processing

This blog explores how Confluent and Databricks address data integration and processing in modern architectures. Confluent provides real-time, event-driven pipelines…

1 year ago

Apache Flink: Overkill for Simple, Stateless Stream Processing and ETL?

Discover when Apache Flink is the right tool for your stream processing needs. Explore its role in stateful and stateless…

2 years ago

Stateless vs. Stateful Stream Processing with Kafka Streams and Apache Flink

The rise of stream processing has changed how we handle and act on data. While traditional databases, data lakes, and…

2 years ago

Top Trends for Data Streaming with Apache Kafka and Flink in 2025

Apache Kafka and Apache Flink are leading open-source frameworks for data streaming that serve as the foundation for cloud services,…

2 years ago

A New Era in Dynamic Pricing: Real-Time Data Streaming with Apache Kafka and Flink

In the age of digitization, the concept of pricing is no longer fixed or manual. Instead, companies increasingly use dynamic…

2 years ago