Some of the best material I've read recently comes from the Confluent blug, esp. Martin Klepmann. The views are tilted toward Kafka and Samza since the founders

Some of the best material I've read recently comes from the Confluent blug, esp. Martin Klepmann. The views are tilted toward Kafka and Samza since the founders are the same people, though they are both Apache projects. The article that blew my mind was "Turning the Database Inside Out": https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/03/04/turning-the-database-inside-out.html https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/03/04/turning-the-database... . Doesn't encompass the full space, but the architectural implications when combined with CQRS/Event Sourcing models are huge. Samza's architecture and API embodies a lot of the important ideas at a lower level than Storm; while it may not be the easiest to use in practice, the concepts and documentation translate.