The Data Challenge That Birthed Kafka

Picture this: you're standing on a balcony overlooking a massive futuristic city, millions of people

rushing through the streets, every one of them constantly sending signals,

gestures, messages, tiny fragments of behavior that, if captured and

understood, could reveal patterns about the entire population. But now imagine

that instead of a city, it's the internet, and instead of millions of people,

it's billions. Every click, every log-in, every video play, every search query,

every swipe, every tiny interaction produces a data event, not once per minute,

not once per second, but tens of thousands of times per second from all over the world non-stop.