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Handling Bursty Traffic in Real-Time Analytics Applications

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Database makers have experimented with different designs to scale for bursts of data traffic without sacrificing speed, features or cost. Lambda Architecture: Too Many Compromises A decade ago, a multitiered database architecture called Lambda began to emerge. It provides instant views of the real-time data.

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Aggregator Leaf Tailer: An Alternative to Lambda Architecture for Real-Time Analytics

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Aggregator Leaf Tailer (ALT) is the data architecture favored by web-scale companies, like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google, for its efficiency and scalability. In this blog post, I will describe the Aggregator Leaf Tailer architecture and its advantages for low-latency data processing and analytics.

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20+ Data Engineering Projects for Beginners with Source Code

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to accumulate data over a given period for better analysis. There are many more aspects to it and one can learn them better if they work on a sample data aggregation project. Project Idea: Explore what is real-time data processing, the architecture of a big data project, and data flow by working on a sample of big data.