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

Happy Path Programming

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The Similarity in Thinking About Objects in Functional Programming

The way you're talking about it reminds me of immutable data structures in functional programming. That's it. You know, I mean, at least, but my brain has been immersed in all that stuff. So I'm not sure if I'm thinking about it correctly. And so Kafka being this like immutable stream of events that you can listen to and perform transformation functions on where the output of the transformation is just a new stream. Right? Because I have a functional brain. People who are funks who are just driven those functional brains, they see this and they go like, hello.

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