Can Kafka Replace Your Database? Exploring ACID Guarantees with Kafka

This article examines Martin Kleppmann’s view of Kafka as a database, breaking down how Kafka handles atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability through event streams and partitioning, and argues why MySQL still remains essential for many workloads.

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Can Kafka Replace Your Database? Exploring ACID Guarantees with Kafka

Xianyu Technology

Nov 21, 2019 · Big Data

Event-Driven Rule Engine for User Growth at Xianyu

To accelerate growth on Xianyu’s 20 million‑DAU platform, the team built an event‑driven rule engine with a SQL‑like DSL that translates user‑behavior streams into real‑time Flink/Blink queries, cutting rule development from four days to half a day and achieving sub‑5‑second processing latency.

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Event-Driven Rule Engine for User Growth at Xianyu

21CTO

Nov 27, 2018 · Information Security

event-stream NPM Trojan: How a Bitcoin‑Mining Backdoor Sneaked In

The article explains how the popular Node.js package event-stream was transferred to a new maintainer who injected a malicious flatmap-stream module that steals Bitcoin, outlines the timeline of the supply‑chain attack, and provides steps for developers to detect and remediate the infection.

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event-stream NPM Trojan: How a Bitcoin‑Mining Backdoor Sneaked In