Home / System Designing / 06. System Designing / 14. Streaming Multimodal Data Platform Streaming Multimodal Data Platform¶ The chapters in this module, in reading order. # Chapter 00 Streaming Multimodal Data Platform — First-Principles Overview 01 Why the nightly warehouse makes a copilot lie — freshness as a budget, not a slogan 02 The replay log and the Monday flood — ingestion when consumers fall behind 03 Where raw bytes live and where queryable artifacts live — storage for a multimodal stream 04 Running models in the stream — ASR, vision, and embeddings when the unit of work is expensive and fallible 05 Finding the screenshot from a text question — multimodal indexing and incremental updates 06 How fresh is fresh enough — lambda, kappa, and the bill for data nobody queries 07 Tracing and erasing what flows through the pipe — lineage, quality, and PII across modalities 08 Where the pipe hits its limits — open problems, contested practices, and when streaming is the wrong tool