Why real-time systems aren’t luxury infrastructure—they’re how smart businesses stay ahead. Let’s get one thing out of the way:Batch is fine—for laundry. Not for decisions. Most companies still move data the same way they moved it in 2005: extract, load, wait, analyze, repeat. It’s comfortable. It’s familiar. But it’s also a few hours—or days—behind what’s […]
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Expectations Have Changed—Permanently We live in a world that expects everything now. People track their parcels obsessively. They refresh flight apps every five minutes to check for gate changes. They want instant payment confirmations, real-time fraud checks, and status updates before they even think to ask. The modern customer is impatient—not because they’re difficult, but
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In today’s data-driven world, businesses need to process and analyze vast amounts of information in real time. This demand has led to the rise of data streaming platforms, with Apache Kafka emerging as one of the most powerful and widely adopted tools for real-time data streaming. Since its inception at LinkedIn in 2011, Kafka has
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Introduction The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) in German, mandates that organizations must be able to delete a user’s personal data upon request. Failure to comply with this requirement can result in severe fines, reaching up to 4% of a company’s global revenue or €20 million, whichever is higher. For companies using
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