With a current zoo of technologies and different ways of their interaction it's a big challenge to architect a system (or adopt existed one) that will conform to low-latency BigData analysis requirements. Apache Kafka and Kappa Architecture in particular take more and more attention over classic Hadoop-centric technologies stack. New Consumer API put significant boost in this direction. Microservices-based streaming processing and new Kafka Streams tend to be a synergy in BigData world.