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As the snow falls (or your favorite tropical drink chills, depending on where you are), Decodable is here to deliver a sleigh full of innovation! In 2024, we unwrapped some of the most exciting features yet, making real-time data as smooth as hot cocoa on a snowy night. So grab your fuzzy socks and settle in as we unwrap Decodable’s biggest accomplishments this year.
A Year of Giving: Decodable’s Top 2024 Features
From streamlining workflows to empowering developers, these innovations are here to elevate your real time data game:
🎁 Enhanced Data Control
Bring Your Own Kafka (BYOK): To further extend deployment flexibility, we recently introduced Bring Your Own Kafka (BYOK) within our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments. If you already have a Kafka cluster—whether Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Redpanda, or another option—you can reuse it for Decodable BYOC deployment for cost savings and maintain centralized management and governance.
🎄 Operational Efficiency
Multi-Stream Connectivity: Our new multi-stream connectors enable you to unify multiple resources within a data system under a single connection, reducing operational overhead and costs. With built-in support for automatic external resource discovery and creation, and automatic data type mapping, creating and updating connections has never been simpler.
Resource Tagging: Anyone managing resources at scale knows you need tagging to keep things organized and discoverable. With resource tagging, you can categorize your Decodable resources using criteria that matter to you, such as team, environment, or data sensitivity. Additionally, we’ve purposely decided to use SQL—the language we all love—to query your resources by tags, making it easy to filter and retrieve the exact resources you need.
✨ Transparency and Observability
Interactive Lineage Graph: Ready to sit back and watch your end-to-end data flow? Our interactive lineage graph provides a clear, visual map of every step your data takes. Track every byte across its lifecycle, uncover dependencies, and gain deeper insights into your pipelines.
🎉 Developer Empowerment
Declarative Resource Management: Simplify the management of your data pipelines with declarative YAML configurations. Define your resources and workflows in a human-readable format for faster deployment and consistent updates. This approach follows developer and CI/CD best practices to reduce complexity and minimize errors.
PyFlink Support: We've integrated PyFlink into our platform, enabling Python developers to build scalable batch and streaming workloads seamlessly, enhancing real-time AI application data processing capabilities.
Support for Flink 1.19: Stay ahead with the latest features and improvements by leveraging our support for Apache Flink 1.19 (with Flink 1.20 support coming soon), ensuring your streaming applications are built on the latest technology.
What’s Under the Tree for 2025?
This year’s progress is just the beginning. In 2025, we’re doubling down on making real time data even more developer-friendly with support for multi-cloud environments, better observability, and tools to make building with Decodable a breeze.
Headlining our 2025 roadmap is Automatic Schema Evolution, which will dynamically adapt your ETL jobs to any schema changes in the source systems—ensuring seamless data flow without manual intervention. Join us for the 2025 Predictions Roundtable to unwrap what’s next in data streaming. Get a sneak peek at the trends and innovations shaping the future!
Final Thoughts: The Gift That Keeps on Streaming
2024 was the year we made real-time data streaming effortless, delightful, and powerful. Whether you’re scaling globally, building AI applications, or just trying to survive the holiday season, Decodable is here to empower your journey. Let’s keep the momentum going in 2025!
