Redpanda and Snowflake combined to create a high-performance streaming data pipeline that can process 3.8 billion messages at a rate of 14.5 GB per second, achieving near real-time analytics with a P50 latency of under two seconds and a P99 latency under eight seconds. The setup was executed swiftly, transitioning from concept to production within a day, largely thanks to Redpanda's automation tools. The benchmark utilized a 9-node Redpanda Enterprise cluster on AWS EC2 instances and 12 Redpanda Connect nodes, employing the Kafka-compatible Redpanda platform and a snowflake_streaming connector optimized for high throughput and low latency. Key optimizations included using a binary format like AVRO for a 20% throughput improvement and adjusting for a delicate balance of throughput and latency. Although Snowflake's build steps introduced some latency, increasing build_parallelism and optimizing Snowpipe Streaming channels helped mitigate this. The tests demonstrated that Redpanda and Snowflake can effectively support real-time analytics in various applications, such as market surveillance and fraud detection, with insights delivered in seconds rather than hours.