Distributed Real Time Stream Processing: Why and How: Spark Summit East talk by Petr Zapletal

The demand for stream processing is increasing a lot these days. Immense amounts of data have to be processed fast from a rapidly growing set of disparate data sources. This pushes the limits of traditional data processing infrastructures. These stream-based applications include trading, social networks, Internet of things, system monitoring, and many other examples.

A number of powerful, easy-to-use open source platforms have emerged to address this. But the same problem can be solved differently, various but sometimes overlapping use-cases can be targeted or different vocabularies for similar concepts can be used. This may lead to confusion, longer development time or costly wrong decisions.