Sep 2, 2026 · 8 min read
We started Prism with a simple question: why does the rest of the internet move in real time, while analytics still runs on a nightly clock?
Batch ETL is a habit we inherited from the warehouse era. It works, but it bakes in a delay — and every minute of delay is a decision made on stale data.
Streaming gives you the same event the moment it happens. That's the difference between "yesterday's numbers" and "what's happening right now".
Real-time doesn't replace the warehouse — it's a new layer on top, where latency matters and decisions are live.