The document discusses the transition of Watson Analytics for Social Media from a single-tenant Hadoop architecture to a multitenant system capable of processing over 3000 tenants efficiently using Apache Spark. It highlights key architectural changes to accommodate trickle feeds and the importance of handling tenant-specific and language-specific analytics for low-latency processing. Lessons learned during this evolution emphasize minimizing switching costs and leveraging distributed systems for scalable, real-time data analysis.
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