[backlog] Verify/improve cloud readiness

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Documentation

A first example how run the TaxiRidesStreamingJob on CrateDB Cloud can be found at Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and CrateDB Cloud. The next step would be to demonstrate how to run all software components on hosted infrastructure, in this case primarily Kafka and Flink.

Candidates

• Aiven for Apache Flink
  • https://aiven.io/flink
  • https://docs.aiven.io/docs/products/flink/howto/connect-pg
• Alibaba Cloud
  • https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/realtime-compute-for-apache-flink
  • https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/realtime-compute-for-apache-flink/latest/development-reference-upstream-and-downstream-storage
  • https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/clickhouse/latest/use-jdbc-connector-to-write-data-to-an-apsaradb-for-clickhouse-cluster
• Amazon EMR
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-flink.html
• Confluent Cloud
  • https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/connectors/
  • https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-kafka-meets-cloud-flink-with-confluent-and-immerok/
• Upstash
  • https://upstash.com/
  • https://docs.upstash.com/kafka