Real-Time Analytics: Streaming Data for Instant Insight
Real-Time Analytics: Streaming Data for Instant Insight Real-time analytics let teams see what is happening now, not hours later. Streaming data feeds continuously, so dashboards and alerts update as events arrive. This approach complements traditional batch reporting and helps catch issues early, when a quick response can prevent bigger problems. Key ideas include sources, streams, processing, and sinks. A stream is a sequence of events that arrives with time stamps. Windowing groups events into small time slices to compute fresh metrics. State is used to remember context across events. Systems must handle backpressure, faults, and late data gracefully. ...