Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Streaming data is everywhere. It's the magic beneath summoning an Uber ride or streaming "Hamilton" on our TVs. And it's big business: the market opportunity for data-streaming is worth close to $5 billion. But today's streaming data is still often dependent on Kafka, which was designed for hardware built a decade ago — before cloud environments and modern applications were widely adopted. In addition, there's now a massive operational complexity to streaming data, which is why it's increasingly challenging for developers to manage the back-end. Alex and the Vectorized team are taking on a technology incumbent to make it simpler for developers to run their applications.
Read more: gv.com/news/vectorized-google-funding
Streaming data is everywhere. It's the magic beneath summoning an Uber ride or streaming "Hamilton" on our TVs. And it's big business: the market opportunity for data-streaming is worth close to $5 billion. But today's streaming data is still often dependent on Kafka, which was designed for hardware built a decade ago — before cloud environments and modern applications were widely adopted. In addition, there's now a massive operational complexity to streaming data, which is why it's increasingly challenging for developers to manage the back-end. Alex and the Vectorized team are taking on a technology incumbent to make it simpler for developers to run their applications.
Read more: gv.com/news/vectorized-google-funding
