// Hacker Noon · 6 May 2026

Why Modern Systems Are Built Around Logs, State, and Time

Streaming replaced batch jobs and polling with durable logs, CDC-fed boundaries, and stateful runtimes making event time, watermarks, checkpoints, and exactly-once semantics the architectural foundation of systems that are always changing, sometimes late, and never neatly finished.

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