This checklist helps organizations assess whether their current Kafka or S3 ingestion pipelines are limiting performance and agility. It identifies common challenges such as siloed tools, fragile pipelines, schema breakage, manual optimization, and slow Iceberg tables. The document introduces Starburst Galaxy as a fully managed ingestion solution that unifies batch and streaming ingest into governed Iceberg tables. Built-in schema evolution, automated optimization, and serverless operation eliminate operational overhead. The checklist guides teams toward modernizing ingestion workflows to improve reliability, scalability, and time to insight.

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