Why keep both an event history and a current table?
The event history helps explain how a state was reached, while a materialized table can make common queries easier. Teams still need explicit rules for late events, corrections, deletes, and replay.
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A Fresh Event Is Not the Same as Current Business StateConfluent calls its new architecture Streamhouse. The harder question for AI agents is whether a live feed is complete and authoritative enough to act on.
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