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by zjkr 969 days ago
Exciting. In my past experience at Uber we were looking at leveraging Kafka and Pinot for replacing some large on the fly index queries and calculations we were doing.

They were becoming operationally expensive and for hot spots in the database were extremely problematic.

Keeping running counts and aggregations and general logic and math on top of streams have always been difficult