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High-Throughput Software Systems: Engineering Data Pipelines and Event-Driven Architectures for Real-Time Decision Platforms
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Abstract
The increasing demand for real-time decision-making has transformed the role of software systems across domains such as finance, advertising, logistics, and intelligent services. Modern decision platforms must ingest continuous streams of data, process events at high throughput, and produce timely, reliable outcomes under strict latency constraints. These requirements challenge traditional software architectures that were designed for batch processing or request-response interaction models. This paper examines high-throughput software systems from a software engineering perspective, focusing on the architectural role of data pipelines and event-driven designs in real-time decision platforms. It argues that building such systems is not merely a data engineering task but a core software development challenge involving control flow, state management, failure handling, and system evolution. The study analyzes the characteristics that distinguish real-time decision platforms from conventional data systems and identifies engineering challenges inherent in high-throughput environments. It explores how data pipelines can be designed to balance throughput, reliability, and correctness, and how event-driven architectures provide the structural foundation for scalable, responsive systems. Rather than promoting specific technologies, the paper emphasizes architectural patterns and design principles that remain applicable across platforms and implementations. The contributions of this work are threefold. First, it reframes high-throughput data processing as a software architecture problem rather than a tooling concern. Second, it articulates design principles and patterns for engineering reliable real-time decision platforms. Third, it examines how these architectures reshape the software development lifecycle, influencing testing, deployment, and long-term maintainability. By grounding real-time data processing in software engineering fundamentals, this paper provides a framework for building robust high-throughput systems at scale.
Keywords
High-Throughput Systems; Real-Time Decision Platforms; Event-Driven Architecture; Data Pipelines; Stream Processing; Software Engineering
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How to cite this paper
@article{1714961,
author = {Umut Gumeli},
title = {High-Throughput Software Systems: Engineering Data Pipelines and Event-Driven Architectures for Real-Time Decision Platforms},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2024},
volume = {8},
number = {4},
pages = {897-906},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1714961.pdf},
abstract = {The increasing demand for real-time decision-making has transformed the role of software systems across domains such as finance, advertising, logistics, and intelligent services. Modern decision platforms must ingest continuous streams of data, process events at high throughput, and produce timely, reliable outcomes under strict latency constraints. These requirements challenge traditional software architectures that were designed for batch processing or request-response interaction models. This paper examines high-throughput software systems from a software engineering perspective, focusing on the architectural role of data pipelines and event-driven designs in real-time decision platforms. It argues that building such systems is not merely a data engineering task but a core software development challenge involving control flow, state management, failure handling, and system evolution. The study analyzes the characteristics that distinguish real-time decision platforms from conventional data systems and identifies engineering challenges inherent in high-throughput environments. It explores how data pipelines can be designed to balance throughput, reliability, and correctness, and how event-driven architectures provide the structural foundation for scalable, responsive systems. Rather than promoting specific technologies, the paper emphasizes architectural patterns and design principles that remain applicable across platforms and implementations. The contributions of this work are threefold. First, it reframes high-throughput data processing as a software architecture problem rather than a tooling concern. Second, it articulates design principles and patterns for engineering reliable real-time decision platforms. Third, it examines how these architectures reshape the software development lifecycle, influencing testing, deployment, and long-term maintainability. By grounding real-time data processing in software engineering fundamentals, this paper provides a framework for building robust high-throughput systems at scale.},
keywords = {High-Throughput Systems; Real-Time Decision Platforms; Event-Driven Architecture; Data Pipelines; Stream Processing; Software Engineering},
month = {October},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV8I4-1714961}
}