Tutorial on streaming geolocation data from Kafka to Elasticsearch, covering mapping and data formatting using ksqlDB.
A technical guide on streaming XML data from IBM MQ to Kafka, transforming it, and then loading it into MongoDB using Kafka Connect.
A technical guide on setting Kafka message keys when piping JSON data from jq to kafkacat, using a separator character.
Explores methods to count messages in a Kafka topic, comparing kafkacat commands with wc to ksqlDB for more detailed, grouped aggregations.
ksqlDB 0.7 adds support for primitive data types as message keys, simplifying data joins and reducing the need for pre-processing.
A technical tutorial on streaming data from SQL Server to Snowflake using Kafka and Kafka Connect with Debezium for CDC.
A technical guide on integrating Kafka Connect and Debezium with Confluent Cloud for streaming data from MySQL.
A guide to using Kafka Connect to stream data from Kafka topics to Elasticsearch 7, covering configuration, common errors, and schema options.
A guide to terminating all running KSQL queries and dropping streams/tables using curl, jq, and xargs commands.
Using KSQL to flatten nested CDC data from Kafka for use with the JDBC Sink connector.
Explains the timestamp requirement for stream-table joins in KSQL, where table messages must exist before stream events for a successful join.
A tutorial on using Mockaroo and kafkacat to generate and load realistic test data into Apache Kafka topics for development and testing.
A technical guide on configuring MongoDB replication and using Debezium to stream database changes into Apache Kafka.
Author's schedule and list of Apache Kafka talks at Oracle OpenWorld and Oak Table World 2017 conferences.
Author announces leaving Rittman Mead after 5 years to join Confluent as a Partner Technology Evangelist for Apache Kafka.
A technical guide on using an Oracle GoldenGate adaptor to stream data directly into Elasticsearch for real-time search and analytics.
