Streaming: Why should I care?

You think, all that hype about streaming solutions does not affect you? I thought so also. But when playing around with that topic for some time, I realized that it sheds a different light on many topics I struggled with for some time. In this talk I want to share with you what I discovered when switching from a from a database centric view to stream oriented processing.

• Splitting your application in smaller services gets easier as you have more natural boundaries
• You have more options to run different data schema versions in different services (instead of one central db upgrade)
• More scaling possibilities
• Operations improvements

For sure, streaming does not solve any problem, but much more than I thought before. And in python you have good support with many streaming clients. I will give some examples and comparisons for working with Kafka and Avro Schemas.