What is Flume?
Flume (not technical) is constructed to transfer logs down a mountain by using the shear capability of water flowing through a constructed channel. These channels can be build over a large distance and enables to transfer these logs quickly, effectively and in a very cost effective manner. These flumes can be used for transferring variety of materials, although initially the main intent was to transfer logs and lumber.
Standing by its name Flume, it's a piece of technology which enables to transfer huge amount of data from a source to its intended destination. Similar to its physical counterpart (log Flume), this was also constructed initially for transfer of log data accumulated in each servers (and other software components), ...
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