Building a real-time application starts with connecting the pieces of your data pipeline.

To make fast and informed decisions, organizations need to rapidly ingest application data, transform it into a digestible format, store it, and make it easily accessible — all at sub-second speed.

A typical real-time data pipeline is architected as follows:

• Application data is ingested through a distributed messaging system to capture and publish feeds.
• A transformation tier is called to distil information, enrich data, and deliver the right formats.
• Data is stored in an operational (real-time) data warehouse for persistence, easy application development, and analytics.
• From there, data can be queried with SQL to power real-time dashboards.

As new applications generate increased data complexity and volume, it is important to build an infrastructure for fast data analysis that enables benefits like real-time dashboards, predictive analytics, and machine learning.

At this year’s Spark Summit East, MemSQL Product Manager, Steven Camina shared how to build an ideal technology stack to enable real-time analytics.

You can view the slides here.

Video: Building the Ideal Stack for Real-Time Analytics

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