Real-Time Streaming Challenges: What I Learned Building at Scale

Building a real-time streaming platform that processes 1 million events per second taught me lessons that no tutorial or documentation could. After months of optimization, debugging, and scaling our self-hosted platform on AWS, here are the hard-won insights that saved us 90% in costs and countless hours of troubleshooting.

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