Background
A rapidly growing internet company reached 10 million DAU, generating TB-scale log data daily. Their existing architecture couldn’t handle both real-time analytics and batch processing needs.
Solution
Technical Architecture
- Collection Layer: Flume + Kafka (log ingestion)
- Processing Layer: Flink (streaming) + Spark (batch)
- Storage Layer: HDFS + HBase + Elasticsearch
- Service Layer: Spring Boot (API gateway)
Key Features
- Real-time Processing: User behavior analytics, anomaly detection, real-time alerts
- Batch Analytics: User profiling, reporting, data mining
- Data Governance: Data lineage tracking, quality monitoring, metadata management
- Visualization: Custom dashboards, real-time data screens
Results
- Daily data volume: PB-scale
- Real-time processing latency: sub-second
- Query performance: 10x faster
- Operations cost reduced by 40%