Streaming design considerations

Streaming is always an important pillar for large-scale organizations. More and more organizations rely on a massive data pool, and they have a need for faster actionable insights. You should understand the long-lasting profitability impact of timely data and appropriate actions based on such timely insights into data. In addition to in-time activities, streaming opens up channels to capture massive, unbounded data from various business groups throughout an organization. This section focuses on the factors that should be taken into account when designing a streaming application. The end results of such designs are driven by the business objectives of the organization.

Latency

The processing of incoming data from several sources and the production of an immediate result is one of the fundamental features of any streaming application. The initial considerations for the desired feature are latency and throughput. In other words, latency and throughput are measured...