stream processing
Stream processing is the magical incantation that proclaims data flowing like an eternal river while secretly assigning engineers the hellish task of buffer management. It boasts 'real-time' latency, all the while savoring its own millisecond-level delays behind the scenes. Each incoming event swirls the system into frenzy, and though advertised as seamless flow, it merely buries you under mountains of overflowing logs. Heralded as the successor to batch processing, in reality it resembles a high-maintenance bonsai hobby behind an invisible barrier.