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used to directly feed the stream processing systems introduced in Chapter
5. However, Flume would be better suited to streaming that data into
persistent data stores like Elasticsearch. With Flume, those components
already exist and can be used directly, whereas with Kafka they would have
to be written.
Now that data is flowing through the system, it is time for it to be processed
and stored. At one point, this would have been a fairly complicated process.
Fortunately, the systems introduced in Chapter 5 have greatly simplified
these mechanisms.
