Real-time Streaming Data Pipeline (Kafka)
About This Service
Real-time Streaming Data Pipeline (Kafka / Kinesis)
An event-streaming pipeline that moves data the moment it happens — not hours later. I build ingestion on Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis, stream processing with Flink or Spark Structured Streaming, and sinks into your warehouse or lake (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or S3/Iceberg). Think live order events for a Dubai e-commerce store, ride/delivery telemetry, IoT readings, or app clickstream landing in your analytics within seconds.
The build is production-grade: exactly-once processing so events are never double-counted, a schema registry (Confluent / AWS Glue) so producers and consumers stay compatible as data evolves, and consumer-lag monitoring with alerts so you know the instant the stream falls behind. I provision on your AWS or self-hosted infrastructure and hand over runbooks so your team can operate it across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah deployments.
This is real-time streaming for live events. It differs from my Data Engineering (ETL, dbt, Airbyte) gig, which moves data in scheduled batches — choose this when you need sub-minute freshness; choose the batch gig when nightly or hourly loads are fine.
What's included
- Kafka / Kinesis ingest — High-throughput event ingestion sized to your peak load
- Stream processing — Transformations, joins and windowing in Flink or Spark Streaming
- Warehouse / lake sink — Streaming writes to Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift or S3/Iceberg
- Schema registry — Confluent / Glue registry keeps producers and consumers compatible
- Exactly-once — No duplicate or lost events under retries or restarts
- Lag monitoring + alerts — Consumer-lag dashboards and alerts so you catch backlogs early
How it works
- 1Design topics / streams
We map event sources, partitioning, schemas and the target sinks.
- 2Build processors + sinks
I implement the stream processors with exactly-once semantics and wire up the warehouse/lake sinks.
- 3Monitor + handover
I add lag monitoring and alerts, load-test it, and hand over runbooks and documentation.
Why work with me
| With me | Typical agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Latency | Real-time, sub-minute | Hourly batch |
| Delivery guarantee | Exactly-once | At-most-once |
| Schema registry | ||
| Lag alerting |