1 year ago

Three years ago, when we posed the question, “https://www.zdnet.com/article/where-is-confluent-going/”, the company was still at the unicorn stage. But it was at a time when https://kafka.apache.org/ was emerging as the default go-to-publish/subscribe messaging engine for the cloud era.

More to the point, today, the question is not so much about Confluent or Kafka, but instead, is streaming about to become the norm?

And the way Apache Kafka is architected, you can plug and play almost any streaming service; you’re not limited to Kafka Streaming.

That’s redolent of the question, is every company a dot com, or whether every company needs what we used to term “big data.”