In today’s digital economy, real-time insights and rapid responsiveness are paramount to delivering exceptional user experiences and lowering TCO. In this session, discover a pioneering approach that leverages a low-latency streaming ETL pipeline built with Spark Structured Streaming and Databricks’ new OLTP-DB—a serverless, managed Postgres offering designed for transactional workloads. Validated in a live customer scenario, this architecture achieves sub-2 second end-to-end latency by seamlessly ingesting streaming data from Kinesis and merging it into OLTP-DB. This breakthrough not only enhances performance and scalability but also provides a replicable blueprint for transforming data pipelines across various verticals. Join us as we delve into the advanced optimization techniques and best practices that underpin this innovation, demonstrating how Databricks’ next-generation solutions can revolutionize real-time data processing and unlock a myriad of new use cases in data landscape.