Most enterprise IT operations rely heavily on batch processing operations. The reliance doesn't go away when you move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), yet SOA just means online transaction ...

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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 ...

Apache Flink is made for applications that continuously apply the same business logic to a series of inputs. That’s most business applications By Fabian Hueske and Stephan Ewen, committers and PMC ...

As enterprises increasingly rely on both real-time and historical data to drive business impact, the need to unify batch and streaming analytics has never been greater. According to IDC, the stream ...

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