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Let Event Streams Auto-Build Your Dataflow Pipeline

by Simon Crosby, on Jan 7, 2022 10:50:16 AM

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 …

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Why Smarter Databases Can’t Deliver Continuous Intelligence

by Simon Crosby, on May 18, 2021 11:03:50 AM

Organizations are drowning in streams of data and it's only going to get worse. Sure, lots of it can be stored, but most of it is only fleetingly useful Traditional …

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Topics:swimOSstreamingbig datacontinuous intelligenceActor Paradigm

Using Swim with Apache Kafka

by Simon Crosby, on May 11, 2021 9:15:00 AM

Event Streams are the Future of Big Data (Tune in to my presentation to the Apache Kafka EU Summit on Wednesday 12 May, to learn how to build a Swim …

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Topics:swimOSSwim Platformcontinuous intelligencekafkaActor Paradigm

Comparing Swim & Akka

by Simon Crosby, on May 4, 2021 8:00:00 AM

Recently several developers have asked me to compare Swim (OSS SwimOS) with other well known Actor Systems and especially Akka, which is a widely used Actor based language. Simply put, …

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The Journey to Continuous Intelligence (Part 6)

by Simon Crosby, on Sep 30, 2020 7:15:00 AM

A Technical Blog Series for Data Architects This multi-part blog series is intended for data architects and anyone else interested in learning how to design modern real-time data analytics solutions …

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