What if we could adapt MapReduce to real-time data processing? Spoiler: it’s awesome and we’re building a next-gen data platform based on it! In the 2020’s, MapReduce isn’t a processing model that will turn many heads. It’s been around for well over a decade, and is easy to write off as an idea that might’ve been groundbreaking in its time, but is dated today. MapReduce was a big deal for a reason