The Importance of Architectural Patterns in Kafka

Kafka streams and CQRS are two of the key architectural patterns in spark. Spark uses Kafka to stream data from a topic jar back to an underlying database. The idea behind CQRS is that you don't want to be bound to how people interact with your data, but can just give them what they need. It's basically decoupling the way my data is stored and written from the way I might want to see it presented. That natural decoupling gives you so much more flexibility,. You know, speed to makes it easier to develop, making it easier to developed both.