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Shop Talk: Kostas Settles the Real-Time vs. Streaming Debate

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Moving Lake Is the Tool, Right?

Real time has to do with latency. Like how fast you have like to react to any piece of information. So it heavily depends on what are you trying to do with the data that you have. You don't want one time to be fast and another time a little slower, right? Yeah. Real time is different from traditional batch ETL which was built in three weeks when they did it. I mean, yeah, I guess maybe another way to say would be like, cost has multiple vectors, right? If you just set up a set and forget a like 24 hour job that you never look at unless it fails versus like managing kinesis,. That's very different.Yeah.

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