From Transactions to Insights: How OLTP and OLAP Work Together in Modern Data Pipelines

Introduction It's Black Friday. In the space of a single second, your e-commerce platform processes 4,000 orders, updates inventory counts, triggers fulfillment workflows, and debits customer accounts. Every one of those operations lands in your OLTP database, fast, atomic, precise. None of it, in that same second, tells you that customers are abandoning their carts at three times the normal rate. Your top-selling item has only 200 units left. The discount code you pushed at noon is cannibalizin