A real-time processing revival

[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Things are moving fast in the stream processing world. There’s renewed interest in stream processing and analytics. I write this based on some data points (attendance in webcasts and conference sessions; a recent meetup), and many conversations with technologists, startup founders, and investors. Certainly,Continue reading “A real-time processing revival”

Expanding options for mining streaming data

[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog.] Stream processing was in the minds of a few people that I ran into over the past week. A combination of new systems, deployment tools, and enhancements to existing frameworks, are behind the recent chatter. Through a combination of simpler deployment tools, programming interfaces,Continue reading “Expanding options for mining streaming data”

Stream Mining essentials

[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] A series of open source, distributed stream processing frameworks have become essential components in many big data technology stacks. Apache Storm remains the most popular, but promising new tools like Spark Streaming and Apache Samza are going to have their share of users. TheseContinue reading “Stream Mining essentials”

Stream Processing and Mining just got more interesting

[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Largely unknown outside data engineering circles, Apache Kafka is one of the more popular open source, distributed computing projects. Many data engineers I speak with either already use it or are planning to do so. It is a distributed message broker used to store1Continue reading “Stream Processing and Mining just got more interesting”