1. A processor-based method of managing, at a plurality of processing nodes, data received from a plurality of processes of a distributed computing arrangement, comprising: in a first processing node of the plurality of processing nodes, receiving data objects from a subset of the plurality of processes; determining a set of non-responsive processes of the plurality of processes based on arrival times of the data objects relative to a current time; aggregating the data objects into a set of data objects without waiting for data objects associated with the non-responsive processes; and sending the set of data objects to a second processing node of the plurality of processing nodes.