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		ryeguy on Jan 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-su... Pulsar wouldn't be the thing that stores the view, it would be the canonical data store used to rebuild the views. The idea is you have an event sourced view and can rebuilt it at any time by resetting the stream pointer to the beginning.

nostrebored on Jan 4, 2020 [–]

Makes sense, so in this case realistically it would be replacing the data lake (likely S3) which currently in an AWS event driven architecture requires a lambda function to push to S3 and is vulnerable to network issues.

Seems like a cool use case!

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