Future starts now, not tomorrow or next year. Being futuristic is being real time and streaming of your live captured data makes your business powerful in delivering the real time value to customers.

– Be it streaming of live matches on your favorite OTT.
– Be it assessing the stock prices of your invested stocks.
– Be it measuring the number of steps on your workouts.
– Be it the system choosing the right cab driver for your ride.
– Be it even measuring the water consumed at your washroom.

A system which is 24/7 live capturing data is exciting & challenging.

3 major stuff we look at while designing a real time streaming system.

1. Storage ⏺
– Design the system ready to store both raw received & processed versions of data.
– Make sure the sequence of the data is given utmost care & noise filters applied.

2. Processing 🔁
– Create a 2 stage queuing system 1)To dump raw data 2)To play the business logic.
– Create indexes & references to enable search, filtering and sorting to be easy.

3. Analytics 📶
– Create an independent pipeline landing on to a data lake with all forms of data.
– Make sure there is monitoring dashboard for taking decisions & alerts internally.

In this social media driven world, businesses can reach customer satisfaction faster than expected only through instant gratification.

If you run a business or a product make sure you tap in real time gratification of your customers with a well built streaming system ♒