2 papers
cs.DC2026
Where Does Streaming State Cost Go? A Reproducible Comparison of Flink and Kafka Streams on Kafka
Kiran N Kumar, Santhosh Kumar Saminathan
This paper presents a controlled comparison of exactly-once Kafka pipelines implemented with Apache Flink and Kafka Streams, two engines with different state-management architectur…
cs.AI2026
Task- and Session-Level Model Routing: A Common-Interface Hybrid Evaluation of Four Open-Source Routers Across Four Benchmarks
Kiran N. Kumar, Santhosh K. Saminathan
Agentic systems increasingly delegate model selection to a router, yet open-source routers are usually evaluated with different tasks, candidate pools, and execution protocols, lim…