A modern streaming data pipeline utilizing Kafka, Telegraf, and InfluxDB 3 Core efficiently handles high-velocity data, exemplified through a fictional pizza restaurant, Papa Giuseppe's Pizzeria. In this setup, Kafka acts as a reliable order board, managing event data such as customer orders and oven temperatures, with Telegraf processing and transforming these events into actionable insights. InfluxDB 3 Core records completed data entries as a time series, enabling detailed tracking of performance metrics. A custom dashboard or Grafana provides real-time operational awareness by displaying active orders, efficiency scores, and potential equipment failures. This architecture, akin to a restaurant's organized workflow, can be applied to various real-time applications, including industrial IoT and financial systems, ensuring scalability and reliability in managing continuous data streams.