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What is Cloud Pub/Sub?

Cloud Pub/Sub is a simple, reliable, scalable foundation for stream analytics and event-driven computing systems. As part of Google Cloud's stream analytics solution, the service ingests event streams and delivers them to Cloud Dataflow for processing and BigQuery for analysis as a data warehousing solution. Relying on the Cloud Pub/Sub service for delivery of event data frees you to focus on transforming your business and data systems with applications such as:
  • Real-time personalization in gaming
  • Fast reporting, targeting and optimization in advertising and media
  • Processing device data for healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, and logistics
  • Syndicating market-related data streams for financial services
Source: Google

What is Google Cloud Pub/Sub Event Analytics?

Google Cloud Pub/Sub Event Analytics is a Magento extension for streaming event-driven business analytics data to Cloud Pub/Sub. It eliminates the need for an external integration service to connect Magento to Cloud Pub/Sub, and provides an easy-to-use interface with a variety of events and fields to select for data collection.