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

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Functional Programming: A Mind Shift

So you just, so you keep all your raw information and then you turn it into the events that you're interested. So we have a lot of people who do fraud detection and also, you know, track devices and they want to alert when something bad happens. They ingest a raw stream of events and then they basically spawn off alerts when that criteria is met. Right? So those would be a new alert event. And again, this is sounding like very much like functional program. Isn't it though? Yeah. It's easier to think about. Function, the functional world that we are moving towards. I think this way. Mm hmm. yeah.

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