Making sense of stream processing

A talk at /dev/winter, Cambridge, UK, 24 Jan 2015

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Abstract

Some people call it stream processing. Others call it Event Sourcing or CQRS. Some even call it Complex Event Processing. Sometimes, such self-important buzzwords are just smoke and mirrors, invented by consultants to sell you stuff. But sometimes, they contain a kernel of wisdom which can really help us design better systems.

In this talk, we will go in search of the wisdom behind the buzzwords. We will discuss how event streams can help make your application more scalable, more reliable and more maintainable. Founded in the experience of building large-scale data systems at LinkedIn, and implemented in open source projects like Apache Samza, stream processing is finally coming of age.

Transcript

A transcript of this talk is published as a guest post on the Confluent blog.