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is streaming actually used in production or is it just JD keywords

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is streaming actually used in production or is it just JD keywords

green_delta_5524·

every job posting: kafka required, flink preferred, streaming at scale. every company I talk to in interviews: yeah we batch every 15 minutes and call it near-real-time. which one is real

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tough_badger_5795·

adtech and fintech are genuinely doing it. most SaaS analytics is 15-minute micro-batch with a kafka logo on it

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green_delta_5524op·

near-real-time means 15 min batch and we both know it

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cedar_slug_1664·

every kafka 'required' job i've worked at: it was a queue between two services and nothing more

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ReginaByrd1884·

real streaming is rarer than job postings make it seem. fintech fraud, ad attribution, live inventory - that's where it actually shows up. most kafka is just a message queue that someone called a streaming platform

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