Commonstock’s Journey to Next-Generation Applications and AI with Astra Streaming

In a recent fireside chat at the Gartner Apps Summit with Curtis Cook, director of back-end engineering at Commonstock, an investment social network platform, they discussed their experience in evaluating different streaming options for real-time data. Commonstock leveraged DataStax Astra Streaming to build a robust architecture that enables high-velocity application development, data distribution, and next-generation AI. The platform allows users to share their investment track records and real-time trades linked to their brokerage accounts while facilitating verified knowledge exchange between investors for well-informed decisions. Commonstock's adoption of Astra Streaming provided more than double the throughput and significantly lower latency compared to other streaming technologies like Kafka and Apache Pulsar. The platform also focuses on real-time data processing, enabling a seamless user experience and facilitating the integration of AI into application design patterns.