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Flinkathon: What makes Flink better than Kafka Streams?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Initially, I would like you all to focus on a few questions before comparing the frameworks:1. Is there any comparison or similarity between Flink and the Kafka?2. What could be better in Flink over the Kafka?3. Is it the problem or system requirement to use one over the other? Before talking about the Flink betterment and use cases over the Kafka, let’s first understand their Continue Reading

Kafka Streams : More Than Just a Dumb Storage

Anuj SaxenaJuly 21, 2017Apache Kafka, ScalaKafka Streams, Real Time Processing, Stream Processing, Streams

Reading Time: 5 minutes Whenever we hear the word Kafka, all we think about it as a messaging system with a publisher-subscriber model that we use for our streaming applications as a source and a sink. So we can say that Kafka is just a dumb storage system that stores the data provided by a producer for a long time (configurable) and it can provide it to some consumer whenever Continue Reading