Architecting a real-time streaming anomaly detection system.

Updated May 5, 2026

Short answer

Requires a scalable message bus (Kafka), stream processing (Flink/Spark), and low-latency storage[cite: 1].

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Features must be calculated in-memory (sliding windows) and passed to lightweight models like Isolation Forest or pre-trained Neural Nets for sub-second inference[cite: 1].

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