In this article, we'll work to give you a better understanding of stream processing using Flink from the bottom-up; cloud services and other platforms provide stream processing solutions (for some, Flink is integrated under the hood). If you miss the basics, this guide is for you.
Our monolith solution does not cope with the increased load of incoming data, and thus it has to evolve. This is the time for the next generation of our product. Stream processing is the new data ingestion paradigm, as compared to the batch processing we’ve implemented so far.