Streaming Systems

About the Authors

Tyler Akidau is a senior staff software engineer at Google, where he is the technical lead for the Data Processing Languages & Systems group, responsible for Google’s Apache Beam efforts, Google Cloud Dataflow, and internal data processing tools like Google Flume, MapReduce, and MillWheel. Tyler is also a founding member of the Apache Beam PMC. Though deeply passionate and vocal about the capabilities and importance of stream processing, he is also a firm believer in batch and streaming as two sides of the same coin, with the real endgame for data processing systems being the seamless merging between the two. He is the author of the “Dataflow Model” paper and the “Streaming 101” and “Streaming 102” articles on the O’Reilly website. His preferred mode of transportation is by cargo bike, with his two young daughters in tow.

Slava Chernyak is a senior software engineer at Google Seattle. Slava spent more than six years working on Google’s internal massive-scale streaming data processing systems and has since become involved with designing and building Windmill, Google Cloud Dataflow’s next-generation streaming backend, from the ground up. Slava is passionate about making massive-scale stream processing available and useful to a broader audience. When he is not working on streaming systems, Slava is out enjoying the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

Reuven Lax is a senior staff software engineer at Google, Seattle, and has spent the past ten years helping ...