Jagadish Venkatraman announces Apache Samza 1.0:
We are pleased to announce today the release of Samza 1.0, a significant milestone in the history of the project. Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing framework that we developed at LinkedIn in 2013. Samza became a top-level Apache project in 2014. Fast-forward to 2018, and we currently have over 3,000 applications in production leveraging Samza at LinkedIn. The use-cases include detecting anomalies, combating fraud, monitoring performance, notifications, real-time analytics, and many more. Today, Samza integrates not only with Apache Kafka, but also with many other systems, including Azure EventHubs, Amazon Kinesis, HDFS, ElasticSearch, and Brooklin. Multiple companies like Slack, TripAdvisor, eBay, and Optimizely have adopted Samza.
We view Samza 1.0 as a step towards our vision of making stream processing universally accessible. In this post, we describe our journey in building and scaling a distributed stream processing system. We also present the key features in Samza 1.0: a rich high-level API, event-time-based processing, integration with Apache Beam, Samza SQL, a standalone mode to run Samza without YARN, and a new test framework for Samza applications.
This runs in the same space as Spark Streaming, Flink, and Kafka Streams, so there are plenty of competitors and a lot of innovation.