# Introduction

The streaming api provides the client the ability to send or receive events/data in a real-time fashion. Whether this is statisticial data, clock ticks or ball tracking information this api is designed to support different types of data.

The api is designed around the concept of a message broker and topics. The client would initially connect to the message broker and then either subscribe to one or more topics to receive information or send information to a topic (or both). Many clients may be reading from or writing to the same topic simultaneously.
