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Design High-Throughput Event Pipeline

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You're designing a real-time event pipeline for a product that emits a very large volume of telemetry. The system needs to support continuous ingestion, low-latency processing, and downstream consumption by analytics and detection systems.

Question

Design a data pipeline that processes millions of events per second with sub-second latency.