# ✍️ Consistency and Completeness: Rethinking Distributed Stream Processing in Apache Kafka

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/consistency-and-completeness-rethinking-distributed-stream-processing-in-apache-kafka/2058>\
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**Created:** [18 June 2021 16:10 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/consistency-and-completeness-rethinking-distributed-stream-processing-in-apache-kafka/2058 "2021-06-18T16:10:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [18 June 2021 16:10 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/consistency-and-completeness-rethinking-distributed-stream-processing-in-apache-kafka/2058/1 "2021-06-18T16:10:44Z")

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✨ There’s a new post on the [Confluent blog](https://confluent.io/blog). Here’s a snippet from it:

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Stream processing has become an important part of the big data landscape, a new programming paradigm bringing asynchronous, long-lived computations to unbounded data in motion. But many people still think […]

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**[👉 Head over to the blog to read the full article](https://www.confluent.io/blog/rethinking-distributed-stream-processing-in-kafka/)**