A cloud native programming and operating model for composable data microservices on a structured platform. With Spring Cloud Data Flow, developers can create, orchestrate and refactor data pipelines through single programming model for common use cases such as data ingest, real-time analytics, and data import/export.

Spring Cloud Data Flow is the cloud native redesign of Spring XD – a project that aimed to simplify development of Big Data applications. The integration and batch modules from Spring XD are refactored into Spring Boot data microservices applications that are now autonomous deployment units – thus enabling them to take full advantage of platform capabilities "natively", and they can independently evolve in isolation.

Spring Cloud Data Flow defines best practices for distributed stream and batch microservice design patterns.