Supercharging Sales Intelligence: Processing Billions of Events via Structured Streaming
Summary
Digisert built a Databricks pipeline processing 28 billion daily certificate events using medallion architecture with Spark Structured Streaming, demonstrating solutions for reliable multi-API ingestion with exponential backoff rate limiting, large-scale deduplication using partitioned merge operations, and batch size tuning to prevent resource exhaustion. The system enables real-time sales intelligence and compliance monitoring while minimizing costs through optimized data access patterns and zero reprocessing of ingested records.
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