Brokers don’t run applications - they are a buffer between the real world and an application that analyzes events. An event stream processor (in Apache Kafka/Pulsar terms) or dataflow pipeline …

The rise of event streaming as a new class of enterprise data that demands continuous analysis is uncontroversial. What’s puzzling is the approaches being taken by the event streaming community …

Applications that deliver continuous intelligence from streaming data must analyze a boundless stream of updates that can’t be stored or delayed, even during a network partition. The “fire and forget” …