# Does ray currently support some form of streaming, similar to kafka-stream

**URL:** <https://discuss.ray.io/t/does-ray-currently-support-some-form-of-streaming-similar-to-kafka-stream/4436>\
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**Created:** [December 14, 2021, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/does-ray-currently-support-some-form-of-streaming-similar-to-kafka-stream/4436 "2021-12-14T08:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![user4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/user4/32/1875_2.png) [@user4](https://discuss.ray.io/u/user4)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/does-ray-currently-support-some-form-of-streaming-similar-to-kafka-stream/4436/1 "2021-12-14T08:00:00Z")

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Does ray currently support some form of streaming, similar to kafka-stream.

We currently have this need. Enter a stream when a user generates a certain behavior, pre-process the data inside the stream, and call the model for prediction.

Does ray currently have this capability?

Looking forward to your response.

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**Author:** ![rliaw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/rliaw/32/24_2.png) [@rliaw](https://discuss.ray.io/u/rliaw)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/does-ray-currently-support-some-form-of-streaming-similar-to-kafka-stream/4436/2 "2022-05-02T23:27:08Z")

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Not directly; you can try integrating kafka with ray though:

> **[Anyscale - Serverless Kafka Stream Processing with Ray](https://www.anyscale.com/blog/serverless-kafka-stream-processing-with-ray)**
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> Learn how Ray can be paired with Apache Kafka to power streaming applications.