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📖 The 15-Minute Gap: How a Fraud Team Discovered They Needed Real-Time Streaming A fintech team runs payment fraud detection with a well-tuned Spark batch job. Every 15 minutes it reads a day's worth of transaction events from S3, scores them agains...
TLDR: Kafka is a distributed event store. Unlike a traditional queue (RabbitMQ) where messages disappear after reading, Kafka stores them in a persistent Log. This allows multiple consumers to read the same data at their own pace, replay history, and...
