Dataflow + Flume https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/25/google_cloud_platform/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/25/google_cloud_platfo... Flume is the b

Dataflow + Flume https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/25/google_cloud_platform/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/25/google_cloud_platfo... Flume is the batch processing framework that replaced MapReduce and Millwheel + Dataflow added concepts like windowing, sessions etc for stream processing. Flume is basically a smarter version of MapReduce, sorta similar to Spark in how it handles lazy evaluation.