The Speed Layer is like a team of couriers, rushing fresh orders from Kafka to the database. But moving fast doesn’t mean everything is fine. The Courier’s Worst Nightmare: The Pile-Up Picture yourself as a logistics dispatcher. At first, everything ...
Apache Iceberg has become the de facto standard for open table formats by providing ACID transactions, time travel, and schema evolution. However, the very mechanics that enable these features, specifically snapshots and distinct delete files, introd...
Imagine you are running a busy online store. You have a constant stream of orders coming in, and a separate stream of payments being processed. You need to match each order to its payment to confirm the sale. In streaming data processing, doing a reg...
TL; DR Writing records to a database one by one will eventually choke any stream processing system. By introducing a buffer and using both count-based and time-based flush triggers, you can batch writes, dramatically increase throughput, reduce datab...
