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Fast data fuels real-time streaming applications
A new report describes an imminent shift in real-time applications and the data architecture they require.
The era is here: we’re starting to see computers making decisions that people used to make, through a combination of historical and real-time data. These streams of data come together in applications that answer questions like:
- What news items or ads is this website visitor likely to be interested in?
- Is current network traffic part of a Distributed Denial of Service attack?
- Should our banking site offer a visitor a special deal on a mortgage, based on her credit history?
- What promotion will entice this gamer to stay on our site longer?
- Is a particular part of the assembly line overheating and need to be shut down?
Such decisions require the real-time collection of data from the particular user or device, along with others in the environment, and often need to be done on a per-person or per-event basis. For instance, leaderboarding (determining who is top candidate among a group of users, based on some criteria) requires a database that tracks all the relevant users. Such a database nowadays often resides in memory. Read more…