Real-Time Business Intelligence & Analytics with ksqlDB

This post introduces ksqlDB as a tool for organizations of any size to build event streaming pipelines with minimal infrastructure and code. It details a use case with an online pharmacy to demonstrate how transactional data can be turned into business intelligence. The implementation focuses on using ksqlDB to answer questions about brand/product performance, customer satisfaction, sales trends, practitioner performance, and the impact of discounting. It highlights the event-driven nature, real-time results, minimal burden on existing systems, and extensibility of ksqlDB. The post provides code examples for creating derived streams and tables from user and order data.