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The conception and performance of real-time analysis @ the LHCb experiment
The real-time processing of data created by the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) experiments, amounting to over 10% of worldwide internet traffic, is one of the greatest computing challenges ever attempted. I will discuss the concrete real-time processing challenges faced by one of the LHC's main experiments, LHCb, and the technological innovations which have allowed these challenges to be overcome. I will also reflect on the development of a community around real-time data processing within LHCb, and describe the ways in which this community has expanded the physics reach of LHCb far beyond what was imagined when the experiment was initially proposed. Finally I will look ahead to the challenges facing LHCb and other experiments in the high-luminosity era of the LHC, and touch on ways in which the widespread availability of precision timing in our detectors will transform real-time processing in the next decades.