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Application Development Post Covid

What pressures, challenges and issues face Modern App Development (MAD) in a post COVID world ?My current Monolith to Microservices project has just been postponed by at least 3 months. It involved refactoring a 10 yr old .net on-prem monolith into a microservices based system running in the cloud.

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As data velocity and volume increases so too does the need to tap into it and extract value as soon as possible. This, I believe, is what is driving the rise of technologies such as Apache Kafka and AWS Kinesis. Though, to be pedantic Kafka is more batch processing than real time streaming.

The article doesn't mention Apache Flink.