The document discusses the evolution of an ETL pipeline from an old architecture to a new streaming-based one. The old architecture ran hourly jobs that processed 12+ GB of data and could take over an hour to complete. The new architecture uses streaming to provide horizontal scalability and real-time processing. It decouples ingestion of raw data from processing via Spark streaming. Events are ingested into MongoDB as they arrive and then processed to calculate metrics and output to various destinations.