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The Good and the Bad of Apache Spark Big Data Processing

AltexSoft

With its native support for in-memory distributed processing and fault tolerance, Spark empowers users to build complex, multi-stage data pipelines with relative ease and efficiency. On the other hand, this dependence on external storage systems can add an extra layer of complexity when integrating Spark into a data pipeline.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices

Confluent

Storing events in a stream and connecting streams via stream processors provide a generic, data-centric, distributed application runtime that you can use to build ETL, event streaming applications, applications for recording metrics and anything else that has a real-time data requirement. Out of the Tar Pit, 2006. Avro or Protobuf ).

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