When it comes to data sources, analytic apps developers are facing new and increasingly complex challenges, such as having to deal with higher demand from event data and streaming sources. Here in the early stages of this “stream revolution,” developers are building modern analytics applications that use continuously delivered real-time data. Yet while streams are clearly the “new normal,” not all data is in streams yet – which means the “next normal” will be stream analytics. It’s therefore incumbent on every data professional to understand the ins and outs of stream analytics.
