When it comes to running a successful business, gaining competitive advantage is everything. That said, pinpointing exactly what might give firms that ‘edge’ isn’t an exact science. It might be a new ...

Confluent Inc. today announced expanded capabilities for its managed service for Apache Flink, the open-source big data processing framework. Unlike the regular open-source Flink, it comes with a ...

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Stream processing systems are pivotal to modern data-driven environments, enabling the continual ingestion, processing and analysis of unbounded data streams across distributed computing resources.

Data runs business. We’ve been told this now immutable truth countless times throughout the early dawn and later progression of the information age. The entire act of so-called digital transformation ...

Data streaming vendor Confluent has also revealed its cloud-native Flink service, with the aim of making it easier to build applications with stream processing. Confluent CEO Jay Kreps recently ...

We live in a world in motion. Stream processing allows us to record events in the real world so that we can take action or make predictions that will drive better business outcomes. The real world is ...

Apache Arrow defines an in-memory columnar data format that accelerates processing on modern CPU and GPU hardware, and enables lightning-fast data access between systems. Working with big data can be ...