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 To extend this to Data Integration workloads, Spring Integration and Spring Boot were put together into a new project. Spring Cloud Stream was born.
 
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 With Spring Cloud Stream, developers can:
 * Build, test, iterate, and deploy data-centric applications in isolation.
 * Apply modern microservices architecture patterns, including composition through messaging.