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In the modern world, an increasing number of people are becoming interconnected to one another via the internet. With the advent of the smartphone, this trend has skyrocketed. Nowadays, the smartphone can be used to do many things, such as check social media, order food online, and call a cab online. We are finding ourselves more reliant on the internet than ever before, and we will only become more reliant in the future. With this development comes a massive increase in data generation. As the internet began to boom, the very nature of data processing changed. Any time one of the apps or service is accessed on the phone, real-time data processing is taking place. Because there is a lot at stake in terms of the quality of their applications, companies are forced to improve data processing, and with improvements come paradigm shifts. One paradigm that is currently being researched and used is the idea of a highly scalable, real-time (or as close to real-time as possible) processing...