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# Functional use cases

Functional use cases of Ylem represent how our framework for creating and running pipelines can be used for:

* Streaming from different sources to different destinations
* Data orchestration, filtering, cleaning, transforming, enriching, and ingestion
* Various types of on-fly calculations, monitoring, and reporting

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