Abstract: Systems and methods are described that include receiving, at a streaming server, a data stream; upon determining, by the streaming server, a transformation to be applied to the data stream, transmitting the data stream to a processing server and applying, using the processing server, the transformation to the data stream; generating a transformed data stream for use by a platform. Systems and methods can include applying, using a determined number of processors, the transformation to a plurality of data stream samples, each processor of the determined number of processors applying the transformation to a data stream sample and generating a transformed data stream sample. Systems and methods can apply, using a processor, the transformation to a plurality of data stream sample sequences and generate corresponding transformed data stream sample sequences. Determining the number of processors can be based on a latency budget value and/or an attribute value of the transformation.