The highly optimized Kotekan framework processes streaming data. Written in a combination of C/C++, it is primarily designed for use on radio telescopes and was originally developed for the CHIME project. It is similar to radio projects such as GNUradio (ascl:2504.029) or Bifrost (ascl:1711.021), though has a greater focus on efficiency and throughput. Kotekan is conceptually straightforward: data is carried through the system in a series of ring buffer objects, which are connected by processing blocks which manipulate the data, and optional metadata structures can be passed alongside the streaming data.

Caput (Cluster Astronomical Python Utilities) contains utilities for handling large datasets on computer clusters. Written with radio astronomy in mind, the package provides an infrastructure for building, managing and configuring pipelines for data processing. It includes modules for dynamically importing and utilizing mpi4py, in-memory mock-ups of h5py objects, and infrastructure for running data analysis pipelines on computer clusters. Caput features a generic container for holding self-documenting datasets in memory with straightforward syncing to h5py files, and offers specialization for holding time stream data. Caput also includes tools for MPI-parallel analysis and routines for converting between different time representations, dealing with leap seconds, and calculating celestial times.