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Bottling the River: Apache Fluss on EKS
Apache Fluss is an “indexable Kafka” that combines horizontally scalable streaming ingestion with columnar storage, primary-key tables, CDC, and optional tiering to S3 or lakehouse formats like Iceberg and Paimon. In production on EKS, integrating it with Flink requires fixing several issues, such as missing connector JARs, S3 credential/delegation-token issues, and extra dependencies. Fluss can significantly simplify stateful streaming and lookup workloads, but 0.9-era production use still needs careful operational tuning.
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