Spring Cloud Data Flow is a cloud-native toolkit for building real-time data pipelines and batch processes. Spring Cloud Data Flow is ready to be used for a range of data processing use cases like simple import/export, ETL processing, event streaming, and predictive analytics.
We can categorize SCDF applications as Streams and Tasks. Generally, Streams are long-running applications and continue processing data as long as desired; on the other hand, Tasks are short-lived applications which are created, executed and terminated within a relatively short span of time. Our focus in this article is the former.