{product} is a cloud native data streaming and event stream processing service tightly integrated into the {astra-ui} and powered by {pulsar-reg}. Using {product}, customers can quickly create {pulsar-short} instances, manage their clusters, scale across cloud regions, and manage {pulsar-short} resources such as topics, connectors, functions and subscriptions.
{product} takes advantage of the core capabilities built into {astra-db} such as SSO, IAM and billing. Existing {astra-db} customers can augment their existing database capabilities with pub/sub and streaming to address a wider range of use cases right away.
With {product}, customers now have powerful capabilities to help drive key business and technical outcomes including:
- Real Time Processing
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Legacy batch processing jobs result in stale data that can slow down an entire business. With {product}, customers can capture event data and data changes in real-time, process that data and take action to create a more responsive, nimble organization.
- Data Science & Machine Learning
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Today, every business is a data business. {product} allows event data to be stored as a persistent event log which can be retained indefinitely and played back to refine ML data models or offloaded to a data lake or other storage for further analysis in the future.
- Modernized Event Driven Architectures
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{product} provides a unified messaging platform that addresses streaming, pub/sub and queuing use cases with low latency and at massive scale. Organizations that are struggling to make their legacy messaging technologies keep up will find {product} to be a frictionless path to modernization.
- Faster Access to Data
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No one has patience for slow loading web pages or mobile apps. By combining {product} with {astra-db}, customers can create read-optimized views of data that can be quickly read from {astra-db} and ensure that data is always up to date by leveraging the event stream processing capabilities of {product}.