Evaluating your event streaming needs, the software architect way

The text discusses the role of a software architect in making decisions about event streaming solutions. It emphasizes that an event streaming platform is any infrastructure or technology that event-driven apps run on or integrate with, to provide data updates at short intervals. The post highlights the importance of understanding the risks and factors involved in choosing an event streaming solution and how a software architect's job is to ask more questions than they have answers for. It also covers topics such as thinking about downtime, team impact, integrations, tooling, open source, total cost of ownership, and other perspectives that impact team efficiency. The text concludes by encouraging readers to take the first step today in exploring managed data infrastructure options.

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