Nnamdi Iregbulem recently penned a great article for Crunchbase News about "How the Modern Data Stack Is Going Real-Time," in which he mentioned some of the most popular tools for building a real-time infrastructure. He also brought up some real-world use cases and showed how this trend is transforming our industry's changing landscape. As someone closely involved in the very process of bringing about that change, though, I couldn't help noticing that one very important piece of the puzzle was missing: real-time data ingestion from transactional databases.

In this blog, I'd like to continue the conversation that Nnamdi started by sharing my own perspectives on the modern data stack (MDS), why real-time data ingestion is an essential element of it, and how enterprises can make it part of their existing data infrastructure.