The Past, Present and Future of Stream Processing

Stream processing has existed for decades. However, it really kicks off in the 2020s thanks to the adoption of open source frameworks like Apache Kafka and Flink. Fully managed cloud services make it easy to configure and deploy stream processing in a cloud-native way; even without the need to write any code. This blog post explores the past, present and future of stream processing. The discussion includes various technologies and cloud services, low code/ no code trade-offs, outlooks into the support of machine learning and GenAI, streaming databases, and the…