Stefan Meier is Lead Engineer at Stanby - the search engine division at BizReach, Inc. Today, he explains why Stanby is moving from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for data analysis. What is the challenge with big data? “Big data is data sets that are so voluminous and complex that traditional data-processing application software [is] inadequate to deal with them."1 One of the most fundamental principles lies in the discrimination between streaming and batch processing. In batch processing, a set of events is collected over time and then processed later, whereas in the streaming model, data