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Grokking Streaming Systems
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Grokking Streaming Systems

by Ning Wang, Josh Fischer
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
312 pages
6h 29m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Grokking Streaming Systems

1 Welcome to Grokking Streaming Systems

In this chapter

  • an introduction to stream processing
  • differentiating between stream processing systems and other systems

If it weren’t for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

—Carl Perkins

In this chapter, we will try to answer a few basic questions about streaming systems, starting with “what is stream processing?” and “what are these stream processing systems, or streaming systems, used for?” The objective is to cover some basic ideas that will be discussed in later chapters.

What is stream processing?

Stream processing has been one of the most popular technologies in the recent years in the big data domain. Streaming systems are the computer systems that process continuous event ...

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