This document discusses using Apache Kafka and Cassandra for real-time data integration. It introduces Kafka Connect, which allows large-scale streaming data import and export to and from Kafka. The presenter thanks the audience and promotes Confluent resources including downloading Confluent, visiting their booth, and attending a book signing for Jay Kreps' book "I ♥ Logs" that day. They also note that Confluent is hiring.
Building Event Streaming Applications with Pac-Man (Ricardo Ferreira, Conflue...HostedbyConfluent
Since Pac-Man was originally released in the '80s, it has been a beacon of fun and joy for people of all ages. What few people know is that this game can also be used to inspire developers on how to build event streaming applications. In this near-zero-slides talk, attendees will get to play the game to generate events. As they play, the presenter will write from scratch a scoreboard using ksqlDB -- an open-source event streaming database built for Apache Kafka.
After building the scoreboard, it will be discussed the different strategies to make the data available elsewhere so any interested service could leverage it with ease. Examples of these services will be provided to monitor in near real-time the scoreboard, revealing whoever is the most proficient Pac-Man player in the room.
I Don’t Always Test My Streams, But When I Do, I Do it in Production (Viktor ...confluent
Testing stream processing applications (Kafka Streams and ksqlDB) isn’t always straightforward. You could run a simple topology manually and observe the results. But how about repeatable tests that you can run anytime, as part of a build without a Kafka cluster or Zookeeper? Luckily, Kafka Streams includes the TopologyTestDriver module (and ksqlDB includes test-runner) that allows you to do precisely that. After learning this, no doubt, your test coverage is sky-high! However, how will your stream processing application perform once deployed to production? You might depend on external resources such as databases, web services, and connectors. Viktor will start this talk covering the basics of unit testing of Kafka Streams applications using TopologyTestDriver. Viktor will also look at some popular open-source libraries for testing streams applications. Viktor demonstrates TestContainers, a Java library that provides lightweight, disposable instances of shared databases, Kafka clusters, and anything else that can run in a Docker container and how to use it for integration testing of processing applications! And lastly, Viktor will show ksqlDB’s test-runner to unit test your KSQL applications.
Edgar and I had the pleasure of presenting at the DCPython meetup last night about how PBS uses Python, Django, Celery, Solr and Amazon Web Services (autoscaling EC2, RDS) to power many of our sites and services. We focused primarily on the COVE (video) and Merlin (content) APIs since those probably have the most interesting architectures.
We had a blast and received many smart questions from the crowd about Solr, Amazon Web Services, Celery and the recent Tupac incident in about that order. Thanks for having us DCPython!
Check out DCPython at http://dcpython.org or follow @DCPython.
Technical presentation around the challenges and technical concerns, you need to plan when you try to make the jump of using containers in a production environment with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Building Event Streaming Applications with Pac-Man (Ricardo Ferreira, Conflue...HostedbyConfluent
Since Pac-Man was originally released in the '80s, it has been a beacon of fun and joy for people of all ages. What few people know is that this game can also be used to inspire developers on how to build event streaming applications. In this near-zero-slides talk, attendees will get to play the game to generate events. As they play, the presenter will write from scratch a scoreboard using ksqlDB -- an open-source event streaming database built for Apache Kafka.
After building the scoreboard, it will be discussed the different strategies to make the data available elsewhere so any interested service could leverage it with ease. Examples of these services will be provided to monitor in near real-time the scoreboard, revealing whoever is the most proficient Pac-Man player in the room.
I Don’t Always Test My Streams, But When I Do, I Do it in Production (Viktor ...confluent
Testing stream processing applications (Kafka Streams and ksqlDB) isn’t always straightforward. You could run a simple topology manually and observe the results. But how about repeatable tests that you can run anytime, as part of a build without a Kafka cluster or Zookeeper? Luckily, Kafka Streams includes the TopologyTestDriver module (and ksqlDB includes test-runner) that allows you to do precisely that. After learning this, no doubt, your test coverage is sky-high! However, how will your stream processing application perform once deployed to production? You might depend on external resources such as databases, web services, and connectors. Viktor will start this talk covering the basics of unit testing of Kafka Streams applications using TopologyTestDriver. Viktor will also look at some popular open-source libraries for testing streams applications. Viktor demonstrates TestContainers, a Java library that provides lightweight, disposable instances of shared databases, Kafka clusters, and anything else that can run in a Docker container and how to use it for integration testing of processing applications! And lastly, Viktor will show ksqlDB’s test-runner to unit test your KSQL applications.
Edgar and I had the pleasure of presenting at the DCPython meetup last night about how PBS uses Python, Django, Celery, Solr and Amazon Web Services (autoscaling EC2, RDS) to power many of our sites and services. We focused primarily on the COVE (video) and Merlin (content) APIs since those probably have the most interesting architectures.
We had a blast and received many smart questions from the crowd about Solr, Amazon Web Services, Celery and the recent Tupac incident in about that order. Thanks for having us DCPython!
Check out DCPython at http://dcpython.org or follow @DCPython.
Technical presentation around the challenges and technical concerns, you need to plan when you try to make the jump of using containers in a production environment with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Feeding Cassandra with Spark-Streaming and KafkaDataStax Academy
In this session we will examine a sample application that simulates an IoT stream that is handled through Kafka, Spark Streaming, and into Cassandra. The session will discuss the implementation details including the Kafka design considerations, Spark Steaming functionality including working with windowing to achieve analytics and finally Cassandra Time series data model considerations. The example is based on OSS Kafka and Integrated Spark and Cassandra in DSE.
Confluent building a real-time streaming platform using kafka streams and k...Thomas Alex
Jeremy Custenborder from Confluent talked about how Kafka brings an event-centric approach to building streaming applications, and how to use Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams to build them.
Protecting your data at rest with Apache Kafka by Confluent and Vormetricconfluent
Learn how data in motion is secure within Apache Kafka and the broader Confluent Platform, while data at rest can be secured by solutions like Vormetric Data Security Manager.
In this presentation we describe the design and implementation of Kafka Connect, Kafka’s new tool for scalable, fault-tolerant data import and export. First we’ll discuss some existing tools in the space and why they fall short when applied to data integration at large scale. Next, we will explore Kafka Connect’s design and how it compares to systems with similar goals, discussing key design decisions that trade off between ease of use for connector developers, operational complexity, and reuse of existing connectors. Finally, we’ll discuss how standardizing on Kafka Connect can ultimately lead to simplifying your entire data pipeline, making ETL into your data warehouse and enabling stream processing applications as simple as adding another Kafka connector.
Kafka Connect: Real-time Data Integration at Scale with Apache Kafka, Ewen Ch...confluent
Many companies are adopting Apache Kafka to power their data pipelines, including LinkedIn, Netflix, and Airbnb. Kafka’s ability to handle high throughput real-time data makes it a perfect fit for solving the data integration problem, acting as the common buffer for all your data and bridging the gap between streaming and batch systems.
However, building a data pipeline around Kafka today can be challenging because it requires combining a wide variety of tools to collect data from disparate data systems. One tool streams updates from your database to Kafka, another imports logs, and yet another exports to HDFS. As a result, building a data pipeline can take significant engineering effort and has high operational overhead because all these different tools require ongoing monitoring and maintenance. Additionally, some of the tools are simply a poor fit for the job: the fragmented nature of the data integration tools ecosystem lead to creative but misguided solutions such as misusing stream processing frameworks for data integration purposes.
We describe the design and implementation of Kafka Connect, Kafka’s new tool for scalable, fault-tolerant data import and export. First we’ll discuss some existing tools in the space and why they fall short when applied to data integration at large scale. Next, we will explore Kafka Connect’s design and how it compares to systems with similar goals, discussing key design decisions that trade off between ease of use for connector developers, operational complexity, and reuse of existing connectors. Finally, we’ll discuss how standardizing on Kafka Connect can ultimately lead to simplifying your entire data pipeline, making ETL into your data warehouse and enabling stream processing applications as simple as adding another Kafka connector.
eventbrite_kafka_summit_event_logo_v3-035858-edited.png
It covers a brief introduction to Apache Kafka Connect, giving insights about its benefits,use cases, motivation behind building Kafka Connect.And also a short discussion on its architecture.
In this talk Ben will walk you through running Cassandra in a docker environment to give you a flexible development environment that uses only a very small set of resources, both locally and with your favorite cloud provider. Lessons learned running Cassandra with a very small set of resources are applicable to both your local development environment and larger, less constrained production deployments.
Lambda Architecture with Spark Streaming, Kafka, Cassandra, Akka, ScalaHelena Edelson
Scala Days, Amsterdam, 2015: Lambda Architecture - Batch and Streaming with Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, Akka and Scala; Fault Tolerance, Data Pipelines, Data Flows, Data Locality, Akka Actors, Spark, Spark Cassandra Connector, Big Data, Asynchronous data flows. Time series data, KillrWeather, Scalable Infrastructure, Partition For Scale, Replicate For Resiliency, Parallelism
Isolation, Data Locality, Location Transparency
Big Data visualization with Apache Spark and Zeppelinprajods
This presentation gives an overview of Apache Spark and explains the features of Apache Zeppelin(incubator). Zeppelin is the open source tool for data discovery, exploration and visualization. It supports REPLs for shell, SparkSQL, Spark(scala), python and angular. This presentation was made on the Big Data Day, at the Great Indian Developer Summit, Bangalore, April 2015
Talk given by JV Jujjuri, Architect at Salesforce, at BookKeeper meetup on November 2016
Salesforce is building low-latency high-throughput distributed long-term storage on Apache BookKeeper. This store is used by highly interactive and data intensive salesforce applications. These apps need quick response from back-end store. Where a single request may result into multiple storage round trips.
Salesforce is enhancing Apache BookKeeper for this workload and actively participating and contributing back to the community. During this talk we will go over lessons learned through our journey, along with current and proposed future enhancements.
Is Your Enterprise Ready to Shine This Holiday Season?DataStax
Be a holiday hero—not a sorry statistic. View this on-demand webinar to learn how to drive revenue, business growth, customer satisfaction, and loyalty during the holiday season, and achieve operational excellence (and sanity!) at the same time. You’ll also hear real-world stories of companies that have experienced Black Friday nightmares—and learn how they turned things back around.
View webinar: https://pages.datastax.com/20191003-NAM-Webinar-IsYourEnterpriseReadytoShinethisHolidaySeason_1-Registration-LP.html
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Designing Fault-Tolerant Applications with DataStax Enterprise and Apache Cas...DataStax
Data resiliency and availability are mission-critical for enterprises today—yet we live in a world where outages are an everyday occurrence. Whether the problem is a single server failure or losing connectivity to an entire data center, if your applications aren’t designed to be fault tolerant, recovery from an outage can be painful and slow. Watch this on-demand webinar to look at best practices for developing fault-tolerant applications with DataStax Drivers for Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise (DSE).
View recording: https://youtu.be/NT2-i3u5wo0
Explore all DataStax webinars: https://www.datastax.com/resources/webinars
Feeding Cassandra with Spark-Streaming and KafkaDataStax Academy
In this session we will examine a sample application that simulates an IoT stream that is handled through Kafka, Spark Streaming, and into Cassandra. The session will discuss the implementation details including the Kafka design considerations, Spark Steaming functionality including working with windowing to achieve analytics and finally Cassandra Time series data model considerations. The example is based on OSS Kafka and Integrated Spark and Cassandra in DSE.
Confluent building a real-time streaming platform using kafka streams and k...Thomas Alex
Jeremy Custenborder from Confluent talked about how Kafka brings an event-centric approach to building streaming applications, and how to use Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams to build them.
Protecting your data at rest with Apache Kafka by Confluent and Vormetricconfluent
Learn how data in motion is secure within Apache Kafka and the broader Confluent Platform, while data at rest can be secured by solutions like Vormetric Data Security Manager.
In this presentation we describe the design and implementation of Kafka Connect, Kafka’s new tool for scalable, fault-tolerant data import and export. First we’ll discuss some existing tools in the space and why they fall short when applied to data integration at large scale. Next, we will explore Kafka Connect’s design and how it compares to systems with similar goals, discussing key design decisions that trade off between ease of use for connector developers, operational complexity, and reuse of existing connectors. Finally, we’ll discuss how standardizing on Kafka Connect can ultimately lead to simplifying your entire data pipeline, making ETL into your data warehouse and enabling stream processing applications as simple as adding another Kafka connector.
Kafka Connect: Real-time Data Integration at Scale with Apache Kafka, Ewen Ch...confluent
Many companies are adopting Apache Kafka to power their data pipelines, including LinkedIn, Netflix, and Airbnb. Kafka’s ability to handle high throughput real-time data makes it a perfect fit for solving the data integration problem, acting as the common buffer for all your data and bridging the gap between streaming and batch systems.
However, building a data pipeline around Kafka today can be challenging because it requires combining a wide variety of tools to collect data from disparate data systems. One tool streams updates from your database to Kafka, another imports logs, and yet another exports to HDFS. As a result, building a data pipeline can take significant engineering effort and has high operational overhead because all these different tools require ongoing monitoring and maintenance. Additionally, some of the tools are simply a poor fit for the job: the fragmented nature of the data integration tools ecosystem lead to creative but misguided solutions such as misusing stream processing frameworks for data integration purposes.
We describe the design and implementation of Kafka Connect, Kafka’s new tool for scalable, fault-tolerant data import and export. First we’ll discuss some existing tools in the space and why they fall short when applied to data integration at large scale. Next, we will explore Kafka Connect’s design and how it compares to systems with similar goals, discussing key design decisions that trade off between ease of use for connector developers, operational complexity, and reuse of existing connectors. Finally, we’ll discuss how standardizing on Kafka Connect can ultimately lead to simplifying your entire data pipeline, making ETL into your data warehouse and enabling stream processing applications as simple as adding another Kafka connector.
eventbrite_kafka_summit_event_logo_v3-035858-edited.png
It covers a brief introduction to Apache Kafka Connect, giving insights about its benefits,use cases, motivation behind building Kafka Connect.And also a short discussion on its architecture.
In this talk Ben will walk you through running Cassandra in a docker environment to give you a flexible development environment that uses only a very small set of resources, both locally and with your favorite cloud provider. Lessons learned running Cassandra with a very small set of resources are applicable to both your local development environment and larger, less constrained production deployments.
Lambda Architecture with Spark Streaming, Kafka, Cassandra, Akka, ScalaHelena Edelson
Scala Days, Amsterdam, 2015: Lambda Architecture - Batch and Streaming with Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, Akka and Scala; Fault Tolerance, Data Pipelines, Data Flows, Data Locality, Akka Actors, Spark, Spark Cassandra Connector, Big Data, Asynchronous data flows. Time series data, KillrWeather, Scalable Infrastructure, Partition For Scale, Replicate For Resiliency, Parallelism
Isolation, Data Locality, Location Transparency
Big Data visualization with Apache Spark and Zeppelinprajods
This presentation gives an overview of Apache Spark and explains the features of Apache Zeppelin(incubator). Zeppelin is the open source tool for data discovery, exploration and visualization. It supports REPLs for shell, SparkSQL, Spark(scala), python and angular. This presentation was made on the Big Data Day, at the Great Indian Developer Summit, Bangalore, April 2015
Talk given by JV Jujjuri, Architect at Salesforce, at BookKeeper meetup on November 2016
Salesforce is building low-latency high-throughput distributed long-term storage on Apache BookKeeper. This store is used by highly interactive and data intensive salesforce applications. These apps need quick response from back-end store. Where a single request may result into multiple storage round trips.
Salesforce is enhancing Apache BookKeeper for this workload and actively participating and contributing back to the community. During this talk we will go over lessons learned through our journey, along with current and proposed future enhancements.
Is Your Enterprise Ready to Shine This Holiday Season?DataStax
Be a holiday hero—not a sorry statistic. View this on-demand webinar to learn how to drive revenue, business growth, customer satisfaction, and loyalty during the holiday season, and achieve operational excellence (and sanity!) at the same time. You’ll also hear real-world stories of companies that have experienced Black Friday nightmares—and learn how they turned things back around.
View webinar: https://pages.datastax.com/20191003-NAM-Webinar-IsYourEnterpriseReadytoShinethisHolidaySeason_1-Registration-LP.html
Explore all DataStax webinars: www.datastax.com/webinars
Designing Fault-Tolerant Applications with DataStax Enterprise and Apache Cas...DataStax
Data resiliency and availability are mission-critical for enterprises today—yet we live in a world where outages are an everyday occurrence. Whether the problem is a single server failure or losing connectivity to an entire data center, if your applications aren’t designed to be fault tolerant, recovery from an outage can be painful and slow. Watch this on-demand webinar to look at best practices for developing fault-tolerant applications with DataStax Drivers for Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise (DSE).
View recording: https://youtu.be/NT2-i3u5wo0
Explore all DataStax webinars: https://www.datastax.com/resources/webinars
Running DataStax Enterprise in VMware Cloud and Hybrid EnvironmentsDataStax
To simplify deploying and managing modern applications, enterprises have been combining the benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with the performance and scale of a NoSQL database — and the results have been remarkable. With this combination, IT organizations have experienced more agility, improved reliability, and better application performance. Watch this on-demand webinar where you’ll learn specifically how VMware HCI with DataStax Enterprise (DSE) and Apache Cassandra™ are transforming the enterprise.
View recording: https://youtu.be/FCLGHMIB0L4
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Best Practices for Getting to Production with DataStax Enterprise GraphDataStax
A distributed graph database is the most powerful means of discovering and leveraging the relationships in your data. With the right techniques combined with the right enterprise graph features, you can build modern applications at scale for real-time use-cases. But how exactly should you manage and model your data for a distributed graph database? And how can you leverage the relationships in that data? Watch this on-demand webinar as our graph expert answers those questions and shares tips and insights into creating production apps with distributed graph data.
View recording: https://youtu.be/TSs_qPnhOas
Webinar | Data Management for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud: A Four-Step JourneyDataStax
Data management may be the hardest part of making the transition to the cloud, but enterprises including Intuit and Macy’s have figured out how to do it right. So what do they know that you might not? Join Robin Schumacher, Chief Product Officer at DataStax as he explores best practices for defining and implementing data management strategies for the cloud. He outlines a four-step journey that will take you from your first deployment in the cloud through to a true intercloud implementation and walk through a real-world use case where a major retailer has evolved through the four phases over a period of four years and is now benefiting from a highly resilient multi-cloud deployment.
View webinar: https://youtu.be/RrTxQ2BAxjg
Webinar | How to Understand Apache Cassandra™ Performance Through Read/Writ...DataStax
In this webinar, you will leverage free and open source tools as well as enterprise-grade utilities developed by DataStax to get a solid grasp on the performance of a masterless distributed database like Cassandra. You’ll also get the opportunity to walk through DataStax Enterprise Insights dashboards and see exactly how to identify performance bottlenecks.
View Recording: https://youtu.be/McZg_MMzVjI
Webinar | Better Together: Apache Cassandra and Apache KafkaDataStax
In this webinar, you’ll also be introduced to DataStax Apache Kafka Connector, and get a brief demonstration of this groundbreaking technology. You’ll directly experience how this tool can help you stream data from Kafka topics into DataStax Enterprise versions of Cassandra. The future of your organization won’t wait. Register now to reserve your spot in this exciting new webinar.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/HmkNb8twUNk
Top 10 Best Practices for Apache Cassandra and DataStax EnterpriseDataStax
No matter how diligent your organization is at driving toward efficiency, databases are complex and it’s easy to make mistakes on your way to production. The good news is, these mistakes are completely avoidable. In this webinar, Jeff Carpenter shares with you exactly how to get started in the right direction — and stay on the path to a successful database launch.
View recording: https://youtu.be/K9Zj3bhjdQg
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Introduction to Apache Cassandra™ + What’s New in 4.0DataStax
Apache Cassandra has been a driving force for applications that scale for over 10 years. This open-source database now powers 30% of the Fortune 100.Now is your chance to get an inside look, guided by the company that’s responsible for 85% of the code commits.You won’t want to miss this deep dive into the database that has become the power behind the moment — the force behind game-changing, scalable cloud applications - Patrick McFadin, VP Developer Relations at DataStax, is going behind the Cassandra curtain in an exclusive webinar.
View recording: https://youtu.be/z8fLn8GL5as
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Webinar: How Active Everywhere Database Architecture Accelerates Hybrid Cloud...DataStax
In this webinar, we’ll discuss how an Active Everywhere database—a masterless architecture where multiple servers (or nodes) are grouped together in a cluster—provides a consistent data fabric between on-premises data centers and public clouds, enabling enterprises to effortlessly scale their hybrid cloud deployments and easily transition to the new hybrid cloud world, without changes to existing applications.
View recording: https://youtu.be/ob6tr-9YiF4
Webinar | Aligning GDPR Requirements with Today's Hybrid Cloud RealitiesDataStax
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has sweeping effects on how enterprises manage their data. Without the right policies and safeguards in place, a tiny data mishap could end up turning into a catastrophic mistake. Join Datastax and our partner Thales eSecurity for a live webinar to learn how GDPR effects impact data management and the various ways enterprises can both comply and thrive in a hybrid cloud environment.
View recording: https://youtu.be/QZ48_qkK9PU
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Designing a Distributed Cloud Database for DummiesDataStax
Join Designing a Distributed Cloud Database for Dummies—the webinar. The webinar “stars” industry vet Patrick McFadin, best known among developers for his seven years at Apache Cassandra, where he held pivotal community roles. Register for the webinar today to learn: why you need distributed cloud databases, the technology you need to create the best used experience, the benefits of data autonomy and much more.
View the recording: https://youtu.be/azC7lB0QU7E
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How to Power Innovation with Geo-Distributed Data Management in Hybrid CloudDataStax
Most enterprises understand the value of hybrid cloud. In fact, your enterprise is already working in a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environment, whether you know it or not. View this SlideShare to gain a greater understanding of the requirements of a geo-distributed cloud database in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
View recording: https://youtu.be/tHukS-p6lUI
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How to Evaluate Cloud Databases for eCommerceDataStax
View these slides to discover the advantages of a distributed cloud database designed for hybrid cloud along with examples of how companies are delivering innovative and personalized ecommerce experiences. We'll discuss the sources of common data challenges and the hidden impact they have on business, the database requirements for improved customer experiences and innovative application delivery, and how leading organizations such as eBay, Sony, Macy’s, and Comcast are transforming the eCommerce experience with DataStax Enterprise 6.
View recording: https://youtu.be/4UXrJ3xtmGg
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Webinar: DataStax Enterprise 6: 10 Ways to Multiply the Power of Apache Cassa...DataStax
Today’s customers want experiences that are contextual, always on, and above all — delightful. To be able to provide this, enterprises need a distributed, hybrid cloud-ready database that can easily crunch massive volumes of data from disparate sources while offering data autonomy and operational simplicity. Don’t miss this webinar, where you’ll learn how DataStax Enterprise 6 maintains hybrid cloud flexibility with all the benefits of a distributed cloud database, delivers all the advantages of Apache Cassandra with none of the complexities, doubles performance, and provides additional capabilities around robust transactional analytics, graph, search, and more.
View recording: https://youtu.be/tuiWAt2jwBw
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Webinar: DataStax and Microsoft Azure: Empowering the Right-Now Enterprise wi...DataStax
Today’s Right-Now Economy means employees and customers alike expect applications to be always on, real time, and contextual. But how do you manage applications that collect data from a variety of sources, at cloud scale, and provide instant insights? And, can you embrace the public cloud while still retaining control of your data? Join us to hear from Microsoft Cloud Architect and Azure Global Black Belt Ron Abellera to learn how an enterprise-ready hybrid cloud data layer can help to accelerate time to market and scale linearly, ensure continuous availability, and achieve data autonomy with a hybrid cloud strategy.
View webinar recording: https://youtu.be/_-GqmAk5C_I
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Webinar - Real-Time Customer Experience for the Right-Now Enterprise featurin...DataStax
Welcome to the Right-Now Economy. To win in the Right-Now Economy, your enterprise needs to be able to provide delightful, always-on, instantaneously responsive applications via a data layer that can handle data rapidly, in real time, and at cloud scale. Don’t miss our upcoming webinar in which Forrester Principal Analyst Brendan Witcher will discuss why a singular, contextual, 360-degree view of the customer in real-time is critical to CX success and how companies are using data to deliver real-time personalization and recommendations.
View recording: https://youtu.be/e6prezfIGMY
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Datastax - The Architect's guide to customer experience (CX)DataStax
From scalability to data access to data governance, learn the specific performance and data requirements of a customer experience-ready data management platform.
An Operational Data Layer is Critical for Transformative Banking ApplicationsDataStax
Customer expectations are changing fast, while customer-related data is pouring in at an unprecedented rate and volume. Join this webinar, to hear leading experts from DataStax, discuss how DataStax Enterprise, the data management platform trusted by 9 out of the top 15 global banks, enables innovation and industry transformation. They’ll cover how the right data management platform can help break down data silos and modernize old systems of record as an operational data layer that scales to meet the distributed, real-time, always available demands of the enterprise. Register now to learn how the right data management platform allows you to power innovative banking applications, gain instant insight into comprehensive customer interactions, and beat fraud before it happens.
Video: https://youtu.be/319NnKEKJzI
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Becoming a Customer-Centric Enterprise Via Real-Time Data and Design ThinkingDataStax
Customer expectations are changing fast, while customer-related data is pouring in at an unprecedented rate and volume. How can you contextualize and analyze all this customer data in real time to meet increasingly demanding customer expectations? Join Mike Rowland, Director and National Practice Leader for CX Strategy at West Monroe Partners, and Kartavya Jain, Product Marketing Manager at DataStax, for an in-depth conversation about how customer experience frameworks, driven by Design Thinking, can help enterprises: understand their customers and their needs, define their strategy for real-time CX, create value from contextual and instant insights.
A Comprehensive Look at Generative AI in Retail App Testing.pdfkalichargn70th171
Traditional software testing methods are being challenged in retail, where customer expectations and technological advancements continually shape the landscape. Enter generative AI—a transformative subset of artificial intelligence technologies poised to revolutionize software testing.
Into the Box Keynote Day 2: Unveiling amazing updates and announcements for modern CFML developers! Get ready for exciting releases and updates on Ortus tools and products. Stay tuned for cutting-edge innovations designed to boost your productivity.
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Recreation management software streamlines operations by automating key tasks such as scheduling, registration, and payment processing, reducing manual workload and errors. It provides centralized management of facilities, classes, and events, ensuring efficient resource allocation and facility usage. The software offers user-friendly online portals for easy access to bookings and program information, enhancing customer experience. Real-time reporting and data analytics deliver insights into attendance and preferences, aiding in strategic decision-making. Additionally, effective communication tools keep participants and staff informed with timely updates. Overall, recreation management software enhances efficiency, improves service delivery, and boosts customer satisfaction.
Enhancing Research Orchestration Capabilities at ORNL.pdfGlobus
Cross-facility research orchestration comes with ever-changing constraints regarding the availability and suitability of various compute and data resources. In short, a flexible data and processing fabric is needed to enable the dynamic redirection of data and compute tasks throughout the lifecycle of an experiment. In this talk, we illustrate how we easily leveraged Globus services to instrument the ACE research testbed at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility with flexible data and task orchestration capabilities.
First Steps with Globus Compute Multi-User EndpointsGlobus
In this presentation we will share our experiences around getting started with the Globus Compute multi-user endpoint. Working with the Pharmacology group at the University of Auckland, we have previously written an application using Globus Compute that can offload computationally expensive steps in the researcher's workflows, which they wish to manage from their familiar Windows environments, onto the NeSI (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure) cluster. Some of the challenges we have encountered were that each researcher had to set up and manage their own single-user globus compute endpoint and that the workloads had varying resource requirements (CPUs, memory and wall time) between different runs. We hope that the multi-user endpoint will help to address these challenges and share an update on our progress here.
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First I want to quickly introduce myself so you know where I’m coming from. I’m an engineer at Confluent, a company founded by the co-creators of Apache Kafka, and we’re building what we call a stream data platform to help companies capture and leverage all their real-time data. I’m also a committer on the Apache Kafka project and the lead at Confluent on the Connect project, which itself is part of the open source Apache Kafka project.
More types of data stores with specialized functionality – e.g. rise of NoSQL systems handling document-oriented and columnar stores. A lot more sources of data.
Rise of secondary data stores and indexes – e.g. Elasticsearch for efficient text-based queries, graph DBs for graph-oriented queries, time series databases. A lot more destinations for data, and a lot of transformations along the way to those destinations.
Real-time: data needs to be moved between these systems continuously and at low latency.
Unfortunately, as you build up large, complex data pipelines in an ad hoc fashion by connecting different data systems that need copies of the same data with one-off connectors for those systems, or build out custom connectors for stream processing frameworks to handle different sources and sinks of streaming data, we end up with a giant, unmaintainable mess.
This mess has a huge impact on productivity and agility once you get past just a few systems. Adding any new data storage system or stream processing job requires carefully tracking down all the downstream systems that might be affected, which may require coordinating with dozens of teams and code spread across many repositories. Trying to change one data source’s data format can impact many downstream systems, yet there’s no simple way to discover how these jobs are related.
This is a real problem that we’re seeing across a variety of companies today. We need to do something to simplify this picture. While Confluent is working to build out a number of tools to help with these challenges, today I want to focus on how we can standardize and simplify constructing these data pipelines so that, at a minimum, we reduce operational complexity and make it easier to discover and understand the full data pipeline and dependencies.
We refer to this problem as data integration – by which we broadly mean making sure data gets to all the right places. We need to be able to collect data from a diverse set of sources and then feed it to several downstream applications and systems for processing.
This problem isn’t a new one. There were legacy solutions to this problem but the approach of copying data in an ad-hoc way across applications just does not scale anymore. Today data is in motion and it needs to move in real-time and at scale.
I want to start by highlighting some anti-patterns we observe in how people are tackling this problem today.
One-off tools – connect any two given specific systems.
High complexity, operational overhead
Designed to be too specific – n^2 connectors
Overly-generic data copying tools – make few assumptions, connect any and all inputs and outputs, and do a bunch of intermediate transformation as well.
Try to do too much – E, T, and L with weak interfaces
Too abstract – difficult/impossible to make guarantees even when connecting right pairs of systems
Stream processing tools for data integration
Overkill for simple EL workloads
Weaker connector ecosystem – focus is rightly on T
Generic, weak interfaces as found in generic data copying tools result in difficult to understand semantics and guarantees
When we get too specific, handling everything ad hoc, we end up with a ton of different tools for every connection, often times many different tools for doing transformations, and probably the worst case – a lot of different tools that do *all* of ETL for specific systems.
If we have too little separation of concerns, we end up in situations where we use the stream processing framework for literally every step even though they use a specific model that doesn’t map well to ingesting or exporting data from many types of systems. Alternatively, we use overly generic data copying & transformation tools. These tools are so abstract that they can’t provide many guarantees and become overly complex, requiring you to learn a dozen concepts just to setup a simple pipeline.
What we really need is a separation of concerns in ET&L.
One step towards getting to a separation of concerns is being able to decouple the E, T, and L steps. Kafka, when used as shown here, can help us do that.
The vision of Kafka when originally built at LinkedIn was for it to act as a common hub for real-time data.
When streaming data from data stores like RDBMS or K/V store, we produce data into Kafka, making it available to as many downstream consumers as want it.
Save data to other systems like secondary indexes and batch storage systems, which are implemented with consumers.
Stream processing frameworks and custom consumer apps fit in by being both consumers and producers – reading data from Kafka transforming it, and then possibly publishing derived data back into Kafka.
Using this model can simplify the problem as we’re now always interacting with Kafka.
To set some context, I want to just quickly list a few of the features that make it possible for Kafka to handle data at this scale. We’ll come back to many of these properties when looking at Kafka Connect.
At its core, pub/sub messaging system rethought as distributed commit log.
Based on an append-only and sequentially accessed log, which results in very high performance reading and writing data.
Extends the model to a *partitioned stream* model for a single logical topic of data, which allows for distribution of data on the brokers and parallelism in both writes and reads. In order to still provide organization and ordering within a single partition, it guarantees ordering within each partition and uses keys to determine which partition to put data in.
As part of its append-only approach, it decouples data consumption from data retention policy, e.g. retaining data for 7 days or until we have 1TB in a topic. This both gets rid of individual message acking and allows multiple consumption of the same data, i.e. pub/sub, by simply tracking offsets in the stream.
Because data is split across partitions, we can also parallelize consumption and make it elastically scalable with Kafka’s unique automatically balanced consumer groups.
But what exactly is Kafka?
At high level, "just" another pub/sub message queue
A few key features make it scale to handle the requirements of a stream data platform
Multiple consumers can read the same data, and can be at different offsets in the log. Consuming data doesn't delete it from the log. Instead, Kafka use time- or data size- based retention. Your data will stick around for, e.g., 7 days or until you have 100GB. This retention policy is simple and avoids having to keep accounting info for individual messages.
Topics are partitioned so they can scale across multiple servers
Partitions are also replicated for fault tolerance
As I mentioned before, Kafka is multi-subscriber where the same topic can be consumed by multiple groups of consumers where each consumer group can subscribe to read the full copy of data. Furthermore, every consumer group can have multiple consumer processes distributed over several machines and Kafka takes care of assigning the partitions of the subscribed topics evenly amongst the consumer processes in a group so that at all times, every partition of a subscribed topic is being consumed by some consumer process within the group.
In addition to being easy to scale, consumption is also fault tolerant. If one fails, the other ones automatically rebalance to pick up the load of the failed consumer instance. So it is operationally cheap to consume large amounts of data.
Given all these properties, it’s easy to see how Kafka can fit this central role as the hub for all your realtime data, and we can simplify the original image of our data pipeline. However, with the regular Kafka clients, we’re still leaving quite a bit on the table – each connection in the image still requires its own tool or Kafka application to get data to or from Kafka. Each tool uses these relatively low-level clients and has to implement many common features.
Today, I want to introduce you to Kafka Connect, Kafka’s new large-scale, streaming data import/export tool that drastically simplifies the construction, maintenance, and monitoring of these data pipelines.
Kafka Connect is part of the Apache Kafka project, open source under the Apache license, and ships with Kafka. It’s a framework for building connectors between other data systems and Kafka, and the associated runtime to run these connectors in a distributed, fault tolerant manner at scale.
Goals:
Focus – copying only
Batteries included – framework does all the common stuff so connector developers can focus specifically on details that need to be customized for their system. This covers a lot more than many connector developers realize: beyond managing the producer or consumer, it includes challenges like scalability, recovery from faults and reasoning about delivery guarantees, serialization, connector control, monitoring for ops, and more.
Standardize – configuration, status and connector control, monitoring, etc.
Parallelism, scalability, fault tolerance built-in, without a lot of effort from connector developers or users.
Scale – in two ways. First, scale individual connectors to copy as much data as possible – ingest an entire database rather than one table at a time. Second, scale up to organization-wide data pipelines or down to development, testing, or just copying a single log file into Kafka
With these goals in mind, let’s explore the design of Kafka Connect to see how it fulfills these.
At it’s core, Kafka connect is pretty simple. It has source connectors which copy data from another system into Kafka, and sink connectors that copy data from Kafka into a destination system.
Here I’ve shown a couple of examples. The source and sink systems don’t necessarily have to naturally match Kafka’s data model exactly. However, we do need to be able to translate data between the two. For example, we might load data from a database in a source connector. By using a timestamp column associated with each row, we can effectively generate an ordered stream of events that are then produced into Kafka. To store data into HDFS, we might load data from one or more topics in Kafka and then write it in sequence to files in an HDFS directory, rotating files periodically. Although Kafka Connect is designed around streaming data, because Kafka acts as a good buffer between streaming and batch systems, we can use it here to load data into HDFS. Neither of these systems map directly to Kafka’s model, but both can be adapted to the concepts of streams with offsets. More about this in a minute.
The most important design point for Kafka Connect is that one half of a connection is always Kafka – the destination for sources, or the source of data for sink connectors. This allows the framework to handle the common functionality of connectors while maintaining the ability to automatically provide scalability, fault tolerance, and delivery guarantees without requiring a lot of effort from connector developers. This key assumption is what makes it possible for Kafka Connect to get a better set of tradeoffs than the systems I mentioned earlier.
So now, coming back to the model that connectors need to map to. Just as Kafka’s data model enables certain features around scalability, Kafka Connect’s data model can as well.
Kafka Connect requires every connector to map to a “partitioned stream” model. The basic idea is a generalization of Kafka’s data model of topics and partitions. This mapping is defined by the input system for the connector – the source system for source connectors, and Kafka topics for sink connectors -- and has the following:
A set of partitions which divide the whole set of data logically. Unlike Kafka, the number of partitions can potentially be very large and may be more dynamic than we would expect with Kafka.
Each partition contains an ordered sequence of events/messages. Under the hood these are key/value pairs with byte[], but Kafka Connect requires that they can be converted into a generic data API
Each event/message has a unique offset representing its position in the partition. Since the mapping is determined by the input system, these offsets must be meaningful to that system – these may be quite different from the Kafka offsets you’re used to.
To give a more concrete example, we can revisit the database example from earlier. Previously I only showed a single table, but if we consider the database as a whole, we can apply this model to copy the entire database. We partition by table, delivering each into its own Kafka topic. Each event represents a row that we’ve inserted into the database. The offsets are IDs or timestamps, or even more complex representations like a combination of ID and timestamp. Although there isn’t *actually* a stream for each table, we can effectively construct one by querying the database and ordering results according to specific rules.
As a result of this model, we can see a few properties emerging:
First, we have a built-in concept of parallelism, a requirement for automatically providing scalable data copying. We’re going to be able to distribute processing of partitions across multiple hosts.
Second, this model encourages making copying broad by default – partitioned streams should cover the largest logical collection of data.
Finally, offsets provide an easy way to track which data has been processed and which still needs to be copied. In some cases, mapping from the native data model to streams may not be simple; however, a bit of effort in creating this mapping pays off by providing a common framework and implementation for tracking which data has been copied. Again, we’ll revisit this a bit later, but this allows the framework to handle a lot of the heavy lifting with regards to delivery semantics.
Partitioned streams are the logical data model, but they don’t directly map to physical parallelism, or threads, in Kafka Connect. In the case of the database connector, a direct mapping might seem reasonable. However, some connectors will have a much larger number of partitions that are much finer-grained. For example, consider a connector for collecting metrics data – each metric might be considered its own partition, resulting in tens of thousands of partitions for even a small set of application servers.
However, we do want to exploit the parallelism provided by partitions. Connectors do this by assigning partitions to tasks. Tasks are, simply, threads of control given to the connector code which perform the actual copying of data.
Each connector is given a thread it can use to monitor the input system for the active set of partitions. Remember that this set can be dynamic, so continuous monitoring is sometimes needed to detect changes to the set of partitions. When there are changes, the connector notifies the framework so it can reconfigure the current set of tasks.
Then, each task is given a dedicated thread for processing. The connector assigns a subset of partitions to each task and the task is the one that actually copies the data for that partition. Given the assignment, the connector implementer handles the reading or writing data from that set of partitions.
And how do we decide how many tasks to generate? That’s up to the user, and it’s the primary way to control the total resources used by the connector. Since each task corresponds to a thread, the user can choose to dynamically increase or decrease the maximum number of tasks the connector may create in order to scale resource usage up or down.
So now we have some set of threads, but where do they actually execute? Kafka Connect has two modes of execution.
Standalone mode works as a single process. This is really easy to get started with, easy to configure.
We like this because it scales down really easily and stays local for testing. It’s also great for connectors that really only make sense on a single node – for example, processing log files, where you need to read the data off the local file system.
If you’ve used systems like logstash or flume, this mode should look familiar. It’s commonly referred to as either standalone or agent mode.
In contrast, distributed mode can scale up while providing distribution and fault tolerance.
Recall that each connector or task is a thread, and we’re considering each to be approximately equal in terms of resource usage.
Connectors and tasks are auto-balanced across workers. Failures automatically handled by redistributing work, and you can easily scale the cluster up or down by adding more workers.
Cool implementation note: reuses group membership functionality of consumer groups. Note how if you replace “worker” with “consumer” and “task” with “topic partition”, the things it is doing look largely the same: assigning tasks to workers, detecting when a worker is added or fails, and rebalancing the work. Kafka already provides support for doing a lot of this, so by leveraging the existing implementation and coordinating through Kafka’s group functionality (with internal data stored in Kafka topics), Kafka Connect can provide this functionality in a relatively small code footprint.
Finally, note that Kafka Connect does not own the process management at all. We don’t want to make assumptions about using Mesos, YARN, or any other tool because that would unnecessarily limit Kafka Connect’s usage. Kafka Connect will work out of the box in any of these cluster management systems, or with orchestration tools, or if you just manage your processes with your own tooling.
In contrast, distributed mode can scale up while providing distribution and fault tolerance.
Recall that each connector or task is a thread, and we’re considering each to be approximately equal in terms of resource usage.
Connectors and tasks are auto-balanced across workers. Failures automatically handled by redistributing work, and you can easily scale the cluster up or down by adding more workers.
Cool implementation note: reuses group membership functionality of consumer groups. Note how if you replace “worker” with “consumer” and “task” with “topic partition”, the things it is doing look largely the same: assigning tasks to workers, detecting when a worker is added or fails, and rebalancing the work. Kafka already provides support for doing a lot of this, so by leveraging the existing implementation and coordinating through Kafka’s group functionality (with internal data stored in Kafka topics), Kafka Connect can provide this functionality in a relatively small code footprint.
Finally, note that Kafka Connect does not own the process management at all. We don’t want to make assumptions about using Mesos, YARN, or any other tool because that would unnecessarily limit Kafka Connect’s usage. Kafka Connect will work out of the box in any of these cluster management systems, or with orchestration tools, or if you just manage your processes with your own tooling.
In contrast, distributed mode can scale up while providing distribution and fault tolerance.
Recall that each connector or task is a thread, and we’re considering each to be approximately equal in terms of resource usage.
Connectors and tasks are auto-balanced across workers. Failures automatically handled by redistributing work, and you can easily scale the cluster up or down by adding more workers.
Cool implementation note: reuses group membership functionality of consumer groups. Note how if you replace “worker” with “consumer” and “task” with “topic partition”, the things it is doing look largely the same: assigning tasks to workers, detecting when a worker is added or fails, and rebalancing the work. Kafka already provides support for doing a lot of this, so by leveraging the existing implementation and coordinating through Kafka’s group functionality (with internal data stored in Kafka topics), Kafka Connect can provide this functionality in a relatively small code footprint.
All of this functionality can be accessed via REST API – submit connectors, see their status, update configs, and so on.
Finally, note that Kafka Connect does not own the process management at all. We don’t want to make assumptions about using Mesos, YARN, or any other tool because that would unnecessarily limit Kafka Connect’s usage. Kafka Connect will work out of the box in any of these cluster management systems, or with orchestration tools, or if you just manage your processes with your own tooling.
I want to mention two important features that also simplify both connector developer’s and user’s lives.
The first feature is offset management, which provides for standardized data delivery guarantees. Delivery guarantees are actually rarely provided in many other systems. They generally offer some sort of best effort, but unreliable, delivery. Ironically, stream processing frameworks often do a better job than tools specifically designed for data copying.
Kafka Connect handles offset checkpointing for connectors, and this fits in as a natural extension to Kafka’s offset commit functionality. For sources this works with offsets that have complex structure (e.g. timestamps + autoincrementing IDs in a database) and requires no implementation support from the connector beyond defining the offsets and being able to start reading from a saved offset. For sinks, we can leverage Kafka’s existing offset functionality, but in order to ensure data is completely written, sinks must also support a flush operation. Commits are automatically processed periodically. By default, this mode of managing offsets will provide at least once delivery; internally both sources and sinks are simply flushing all data to the output and the committing offsets.
Note that some connectors will opt out of this functionality in order to provide even stronger guarantees. For example, the HDFS connector manages its own offsets because (carefully) tracking them in HDFS along with the data allows for exactly-once delivery.
The second feature I want to mention are converters. Serialization formats may seem like a minor detail, but not separating the details of data serialization in Kafka from the details of source or sink systems results in a lot of inefficiency:
A lot of code for doing simple data conversions are duplicated across a large number of ad hoc connector implementations.
Each connector ultimately contains its own set of serialization options as it is used in more environments – JSON, Avro, Thrift, protobufs, and more.
Much like the serializers in Kafka’s producer and consumer, the Converters abstract away the details of serialization. Converters are different because they guarantee data is transformed to a common data API defined by Kafka Connect. This API supports both schema and schemaless data, common primitive data types, complex types like structs, and logical type extensions. By sharing this API, connectors write one set of translation code and Converters handle format-specific details. For example, the JDBC connector can easily be used to produce either JSON or Avro to Kafka, without any format-specific code in the connector.
Kafka Connect provides the framework, but I want to spend a few minutes describing the current state of the connector ecosystem. While the framework ships with Apache Kafka, connectors use a federated approach to development. Confluent helped kick off connector development with a few key open source connectors – JDBC for importing data from any relational database and HDFS, for exactly once delivery of data into HDFS and Hive. Confluent will be continuing to add more open source connectors.
We’ve also started tracking connectors that the community has been developing on a page we’re calling the Connector Hub. We’ve already got a dozen or so connectors, and more are popping up every week. We’ll be working to make this index as useful to users as possible, offering information about the current state of the connector implementations and feature sets.
With all these pieces you can see how we can tie together Kafka and Kafka Connect with stream processing frameworks and applications to not only simplify building these data pipelines and solve data integration challenges, but also transform how your company manages its data pipelines.
Kafka provides the central hub for real-time data and Kafka Connect simplifies operationalization: one service to maintain, common metrics, common monitoring, and agnostic to your choice of process and cluster management.
You can centrally managed Kafka Connect cluster running in distributed mode, and accessed via REST API, allowing your ops team to provide data integration as a service to your entire organization.
For developers who want to build a complex data pipeline, they can submit jobs to copy data into and out of Kafka – it’s zero coding (assuming a connector is available)
Then, they can easily leverage either the traditional clients or stream processing frameworks to transform that data. The output is stored back into another Kafka topic or served up directly.
As a side benefit, standardizing on Kafka encourages reuse of existing data (both raw and transformed). Providing this service not only makes it easy to build your *own* complex data pipeline, it encourages other people in the org to build on top of your existing work.
Confluent Platform also provides additional tools that make this setup even more powerful. For example, the schema registry controls the format of data in each topic, and besides ensuring data quality and compatibility, it also encourages decoupling of teams by allowing anyone to discover what data is in a topic, grab its schema, and immediately start utilizing that data without ever adding coordination overhead with another team.
A stream data platform built around Kafka and Kafka Connect allows you to scale to handle your entire organization’s real-time data, while maintaining simple management and easy operationalization of your data pipeline.
With that, I’d like to say thank for listening and I’d be happy to take any questions.