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  "description": "Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, serverless complex event processing (CEP) engine by Microsoft that enables real-time analytic computations on streaming data. It allows users to develop and run SQL-based queries to analyze data from sources like IoT devices, sensors, and social media feeds with sub-second latency.",
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      "slug": "amazon-kinesis-data-analytics",
      "name": "Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics"
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    "founded": "2014",
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