Real-time stream processing architectures differ significantly from batch processing: whereas batch processing requires massive amounts of storage and CPU and memory resources sufficient to churn ...

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Apache Beam, a unified programming model for both batch and streaming data, has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level Apache project. Aside from becoming another full-fledged ...

As the global payment processing solutions market explodes exponentially, businesses are asking themselves, “How should I manage payments at scale?” The answer to this question varies from business to ...

We live in a business world that craves instantaneous response times, especially in terms of the responsiveness of modern transactional applications. Customers expect to make a money transfer, pay a ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Traditional caching fails to stop "thundering herds" where multiple clients trigger the same work during a miss.

On Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink ®, snapshot queries combine batch and stream processing to enable AI apps and agents to act on past and present data New private networking and security features ...

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