Confluent: Have We Entered the Age of Streaming?

Three years ago, when we posed the question, “Apache Kafka was emerging as the default go-to-publish/subscribe messaging engine for the cloud era. At the time, we drew comparisons with IPO’ed while Databricks continues Pulsar recently emerged as a competing project, but is it game over? Hyperscalers are offering alternatives like Azure Event Hub, and AWS co-markets Confluent Cloud, with a similar arrangement with Jay Kreps evangelized streaming using electricity as the metaphor. Kreps positioned streaming as pivotal to the next wave of apps in chicken and egg terms. That is, when electricity Continue reading