Should You Add Real-Time to Your Batch Repertoire?

For thirty years mainstream analytic data pipelines took information from OLTP applications and created reports that informed organizations about what happened in the past. Increasingly, organizations must deal with data flows that come in, not in batches, but continuously. As a result, developers must deal with streaming data where decisions must be made as close to real-time as possible. In addition, IT must start getting the source operational applications ready to “publish” their data continuously rather than in batches.