Fluss puts a columnar, indexed hot tier between Kafka and Iceberg. Here's what it changes structurally, what Kafka still does better, and how to benchmark.
A lakehouse cannot serve sub-second queries over seconds-old data. A hot tier in front solves it, with consequences for consistency, governance.
Commit conflicts multiply with writer count, and AI agents introduce unpredictable write patterns.
Jackson 3 changes everything: package names, unchecked exceptions, flipped defaults. Here's what breaks, why the engines are fine and your service isn't.
