Real Time Applications – The Basic Ingredients

This chapter gets you acquainted with the basic building blocks of near real-time (NRT) systems. We introduce you to a high-level logical, physical, and technical view of such applications, and will touch upon various technology choices for each building block of the system:

• NRT system and its building blocks
• Data Collection
• Stream processing
• Analytical layer – serve it to the end user
• NRT – high-level system views
• NRT – technology views