Event Streaming
The continuous production transport and processing of events as they occur.
Plain English
Systems publish a live flow of records that other systems can process.
In context
Event streaming platforms retain ordered event logs and let independent consumers react in near real time for integration analytics or automation.
Example
“The fraud service consumes payment events from the stream.”
When you'll hear this
- system integration
- real-time analytics
- distributed processing
Common misunderstanding
Event streaming is not synonymous with event-driven architecture and ordering guarantees depend on the platform and partitioning model.
Also known as
stream processingevent stream
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Updated: 2026-08-26
