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Stream Processing

Stream processing is essential for a world that never slows down.

Move beyond the batch with continuous, real-time data ingestion, transformation, and analysis. If you’ve got questions about event stream processing, we’ve got your answers below.

Here’s what’s happening now in stream processing.

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eBook

The Data Streaming Revolution: The Force of Kafka + Flink Awakens

Shoe retailer NewLimits is struggling with decentralized data processing challenges and needs a manageable, cost-effective stream processing solution for an important upcoming launch. Join developer Ada and architect Jax as they learn why Apache Kafka and Apache Flink are better together.

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Online Talk

Experience serverless stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®

In this webinar, you'll learn about the new open preview of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®, a serverless Flink service for processing data in flight. Discover how to filter, join, and enrich data streams with Flink for high-performance stream processing at any scale.

Hasan Jilani

Hasan Jilani, Confluent

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Martijn Visser, Confluent

Jump into stream processing by starting with the essentials.

Take a deeper dive into everything stream processing makes possible.

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More Stream Processing Resources

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5 Steps to Event Streaming: The Pivot from Projects to a Platform

In this ebook, you’ll learn about the profound strategic potential in an event streaming platform for enterprise businesses of many kinds. The types of business challenges event streaming is capable of addressing include driving better customer experience, reducing costs, mitigating risk, and providing a single source of truth across the business. It can be a game changer.

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Designing Event-Driven Systems

Learn how event-driven architecture and stream processing tools such as Apache Kafka can help you build business-critical systems that open modern, innovative use cases.

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A Technical Guide: How to Optimize Data Ingestion into Lakehouses & Warehouses

Discover a technical playbook for data engineers, architects, and developers on implementing a Shift Left approach with data streaming to optimize lakehouse and warehouse data ingestion.

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Adopt Event-Driven Manufacturing Like BMW, Michelin, Siemens & Co

See BMW, Michelin, and Siemens use Apache Kafka for event-driven systems and how your manufacturing organization run event-driven microservices with data streaming.

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The Data Streaming Revolution: The Force of Kafka + Flink Awakens

Shoe retailer NewLimits is struggling with decentralized data processing challenges and needs a manageable, cost-effective stream processing solution for an important upcoming launch. Join developer Ada and architect Jax as they learn why Apache Kafka and Apache Flink are better together.

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451 Research’s Report Reveals Major Apache Flink® & Confluent Announcements!

Discover the latest Apache Flink developments and major Confluent announcements from Kafka Summit 2023 in 451 Research’s Market Insight Report.

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Streams and Tables: Two Sides of the Same Coin

In this paper, we introduce the Dual Streaming Model. The model presents the result of an operator as a stream of successive updates, which induces a duality of results and streams.

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Consistency and Completeness: Rethinking Distributed Stream Processing in Apache Kafka®

This paper presents Apache Kafka’s core design for stream processing, which relies on its persistent log architecture as the storage and inter-processor communication layers to achieve correctness guarantees.

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Real Time is Happening: Discover How Data Streaming Can Revolutionize Your Business

Businesses are discovering that they can create new business opportunities as well as make their existing operations more efficient using real-time data at scale. Learn how real-time data streams is revolutionizing your business.