https://blog.turboawesome.win/tags/streaming/ Recent content in Streaming on Bits, Trades & Systems Hugo en-us Wed, 18 May 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2022/05/kafka-at-startup-scale/ Wed, 18 May 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2022/05/kafka-at-startup-scale/ Running Kafka at a startup is different from running it at enterprise scale. The operational complexity is real, the defaults are wrong for small clusters, and the failure modes are different from what the documentation implies. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2017/09/stream-processing-with-kafka-streams-vs-flink-a-real-comparison/ Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:02:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2017/09/stream-processing-with-kafka-streams-vs-flink-a-real-comparison/ We evaluated Kafka Streams and Apache Flink for a real-time trade enrichment and aggregation pipeline. The technical comparison produced a clear result; the operational comparison was more nuanced. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2017/01/kafka-in-finance-what-exactly-once-actually-costs-you/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:22:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2017/01/kafka-in-finance-what-exactly-once-actually-costs-you/ Kafka's exactly-once semantics arrived in 0.11 with significant caveats. Using it in a regulated financial context forced a clear-eyed view of what the guarantee actually covers and what it doesn't.