Top 5 Trends for Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink in 2024

Data Streaming is one of the most relevant buzzwords in tech to build scalable real-time applications and innovative business models. Do you wonder about my predicted TOP 5 data streaming trends in 2024 to set data in motion? Learn what role Apache Kafka and Apache Flink play. Discover new technology trends and best practices for event-driven architectures, including data sharing, data contracts, serverless stream processing, multi-cloud architectures, and GenAI.

Some followers might notice that this became a series with past posts about the top 5 data streaming trends for 2021, the top 5 for 2022, and the top 5 for 2023. Trends change over time, but the huge value of having a scalable real-time infrastructure as the central data hub stays. Data streaming with Apache Kafka is a journey and evolution to set data in motion.

(Originally posted on Kai Waehner’s blog: “Top 5 Trends for Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink in 2024”… Join the data streaming community and stay informed about new blog posts by subscribing to my newsletter)

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