The document discusses the journey towards building a real-time data platform capable of handling 2.5 million events per second. It describes migrating Spark processing from on-premises CDH to AWS EMR to improve scalability. Fault tolerance was added through batch processing in Spark and auto-recovery capabilities. Backpressure was enabled through Spark streaming, HDFS, and pulling data into Vertica to prevent overloading downstream systems. Monitoring was enhanced with a separate application to track pipeline metrics. The final platform achieved the performance goals through these architectural changes.
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