From Modern Data Stack to Agentic Data Stack: Why Apache SeaTunnel Matters as the Data Integration Runtime

Over the past decade, the Modern Data Stack has changed how teams build data platforms. Data ingestion, lakehouses or cloud warehouses, dbt, orchestration, metrics layers, BI, and governance were split into modular building blocks that can be assembled more flexibly. That shift moved data platforms away from heavy, closed, tightly coupled systems and toward a more open and cloud-native engineering model.