Confluent in a sentence as a noun

Please do -- I've been reading the linkedin/confluent/samza writeups and thinking there's a lot of truth to their ideas.

No; it's probably based around using confluent data structures.

Not sure about the specific cells that they used, but other cell types that I have had experience with will become confluent after starting off at a modest concentration within 24-48 hours.

Confluent in a sentence as an adjective

Although the use of confluent data structures where possible combined with immutable data stores combined and 'live' functional reactive programming across device boundaries -would- drastically simplify cases like these.

The obfuscated C contest is a difficult intellectual pursuit and this wouldn't be hard to understand to someone who doesn't know C, but it is hard to explain how Rothko's rectangle blobs or Pollock's scribbles improve the human condition more than anyone else's blobs or scribbles except that these artists happened to fall in the right confluent streams of intellectual nonsense at the right time.

Confluent definitions

noun

a branch that flows into the main stream

See also: feeder tributary affluent

adjective

flowing together