The Stream Processing Shuffle

Rethinking stream processing solutions.

Confluent’s acquisition of Immerok will lead competitors to scramble to reposition themselves in the market to either take advantage or avoid irrelevancy.

TL;DR

• Confluent needs to conceive a new identity that incorporates Flink while still being “the Kafka company.”

• The title “the Flink company” is up for grabs.

• Competitors need to build partnerships between themselves to take on Confluent.

• Flink is winning the market for stream processing.

• Real-time OLAP databases are getting better.

• ksqlDB and Kafka Streams are still highly relevant in microservces and ZeroETL.