Digitizing the world opened up a plethora of opportunities for companies, consumers, and machines. Unfortunately, it also brought along a new type of exhaustion — data fatigue.

Behind every architecture and system, there’s a team managing the psychological toll of living with the constant stream of real-time, nonstop data. When data is created and requires immediate responsiveness from every interaction, API call, transaction, or click, there is no downtime. Antony Falco, Chief Operating Officer at Hydrolix, has first-hand experience with this kind of unremitting data pipeline.