A continuous flow of information generated by various sources that is processed and consumed as it arrives, rather than being stored first in a static batch. Systems handle these feeds using sliding windows or real-time pipelines to extract metrics, trigger alerts, or feed dashboards. It requires high-throughput, low-latency network architectures to prevent buffering or dropped packets.
Heard on the job
We need to scale the ingest cluster because the streaming data from the IoT sensors is overwhelming the current brokers.