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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

What If We've Been Scaling Stream Processing Wrong All Along?

Hartmut Armbruster

Stop paying the distribution tax for horizontal scale you never need. Vertical scaling on a single JVM easily handles billions of events daily while slashing latency by 30x.

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Evaluating mature stream processing frameworks for production systems

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Introducing data management and the shift to streaming

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Infrastructure challenges when combining Kafka with Apache Flink

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Overcoming typical barriers to real-time stream processing adoption

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Operational complexities and performance optimization of stream applications

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