Designing a Millisecond‑Level Real‑Time Data Processing System
The article outlines practical engineering steps to build a sub‑200 ms end‑to‑end real‑time data pipeline, covering latency budgeting, data ingestion with gRPC/Kafka, stream engine selection (Flink 2.x, RisingWave), state backend tuning, output sink choices, and monitoring with backpressure and OpenTelemetry.
