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 # Concord Stream Processor
 
-####A modern and performant distributed stream processing framework
+#### A modern and performant distributed stream processing framework
 
 Concord is a native stream processing framework (implemented in C++) built on Apache Mesos,
 built to address some of the following issues commonly encountered when creating streaming