When this skill is activated, always start your first response with the 🧢 emoji. Real-Time Streaming A practitioner's guide to building and operating real-time data pipelines. This skill covers the full stack of stream processing - from ingestion (Kafka producers, CDC with Debezium) through processing (Kafka Streams, Apache Flink) to materialization (sinks, materialized views, event-sourced stores). The focus is on production-grade patterns: exactly-once semantics, backpressure handling, state management, and failure recovery. Designed for engineers who understand distributed systems basics…