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Creating a Data Pipeline with Spark, Google Cloud Storage and Big Query

Towards Data Science

It’s possible to go from simple ETL pipelines built with python to move data between two databases to very complex structures, using Kafka to stream real-time messages between all sorts of cloud structures to serve multiple end applications. Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is Google’s blob storage. Image by the author.

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Stream Rows and Kafka Topics Directly into Snowflake with Snowpipe Streaming

Snowflake

As part of this, we are also supporting Snowpipe Streaming as an ingestion method for our Snowflake Connector for Kafka. Now we are able to ingest our data in near real time directly from Kafka topics to a Snowflake table, drastically reducing the cost of ingestion and improving our SLA from 15 minutes to within 60 seconds.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

AltexSoft

Kafka can continue the list of brand names that became generic terms for the entire type of technology. In this article, we’ll explain why businesses choose Kafka and what problems they face when using it. In this article, we’ll explain why businesses choose Kafka and what problems they face when using it. What is Kafka?

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Deploying Kafka Streams and KSQL with Gradle – Part 3: KSQL User-Defined Functions and Kafka Streams

Confluent

As discussed in part 2, I created a GitHub repository with Docker Compose functionality for starting a Kafka and Confluent Platform environment, as well as the code samples mentioned below. gradlew ksql:pipelineExecute , we might see the following error: error_code: 40001: Kafka topic does not exist: clickstream. Kafka Streams.

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8 Data Ingestion Tools (Quick Reference Guide)

Monte Carlo

Integrations : They offer a wide array of connectors for databases, SaaS applications, cloud storage solutions, and more, covering both popular and niche data sources. Apache Kafka Apache Kafka is a powerful distributed streaming platform that acts as both a messaging queue and a data ingestion tool.

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Data Engineering Weekly #151

Data Engineering Weekly

link] Sophie Blee-Goldman: Kafka Streams and Rebalancing through the Ages Consumers come and go. Kafka rebalancing has come a long way since then, and the author walks back to us the memory lane of Kafka rebalancing and the advancements made ever since. Partitions, ever-present. Rebalancing, the awkward middle child.

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A Cost-Effective Data Warehouse Solution in CDP Public Cloud – Part1

Cloudera

Today, more and more customers are moving workloads to the public cloud for business agility where cost-saving and management are key considerations. Cloud object storage is used as the main persistent storage layer, which is significantly cheaper than block volumes. The Cost-Effective Data Warehouse Architecture.