AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Sofie Zilberman
Sofie Zilberman works as a Senior Streaming Solutions Architect at AWS, helping customers design and optimize real-time data pipelines using open-source technologies like Apache Flink, Kafka, and Apache Iceberg. With experience in both streaming and batch data processing, she focuses on making data workflows efficient, observable, and high-performing.
Unlock self-serve streaming SQL with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
In this post, we present Riskified’s journey toward enabling self-service streaming SQL pipelines. We walk through the motivations behind the shift from Confluent ksqlDB to Apache Flink, the architecture Riskified built using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, the technical challenges they faced, and the solutions that helped them make streaming accessible, scalable, and production-ready.