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This Confluent blog is a rehash of earlier conceptual position statement of Jay Kreps, who is now the boss of the Confluent blogger. https://engineering.linked

This Confluent blog is a rehash of earlier conceptual position statement of Jay Kreps, who is now the boss of the Confluent blogger. https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha... Pointing out (GP and yourself) that this is an 'asymmetric duality' is informative and valid.

wenc 6y ago
Thank you -- it's food for thought. A symmetric dual is one where there is equivalence: the dual of the dual is the primal. But it is possible to have a "weak" duality that is assymmetric, where the dual encompasses the primal -- where there are regions of equivalence instead of a 1-to-1 equivalence. I'm not sure if stream-duality fits this conceptual mold exactly but thank you for providing a counterpoint to my assertion. I'm going to think on it.
- eternalban 6y ago
  If one computes in a bounded time domain, then it is symmetric: a table is a ‘time slice’ of a stream.