Explain advanced streaming architectures and real-time event processing in PHP ecosystems.

Streaming architectures process continuous event flows in real time, enabling scalable analytics, reactive systems, and low-latency business operations.

Traditional systems process data in batches.

Modern applications increasingly require:

Streaming architectures process events continuously.

Core concepts:

Immutable ordered sequences of records.

Generate events.

Transport streams. Examples:

Process event flows.

Transform and aggregate events. Examples: