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#55 Apache Kafka - Like Functional Programming but for Data (With Anna McDonald)

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Kafka: A New Way to Think About Data

Kafka is a new way to think about data. It's like an actor model that decides which events it will deal with and in what order. You create a stream of events, you hook up change data capture from your database. Every time an address changes, that is going to be published to Kafka. And anyone who cares can consume it.

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