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Recently, I’ve been looking at what’s possible with streams of Wi-Fi packet capture (pcap) data. I was prompted after initially setting up my Raspberry Pi to capture pcap data and […]

Using a powerful, event-driven application can help you unlock insights contained in the event streams of your business. Before we get into the technology, let’s go over some questions you […]

The Elasticsearch sink connector helps you integrate Apache Kafka® and Elasticsearch with minimum effort. You can take data you’ve stored in Kafka and stream it into Elasticsearch to then be […]

Apache Kafka® is often deployed alongside Elasticsearch to perform log exploration, metrics monitoring and alerting, data visualisation, and analytics. It is complementary to Elasticsearch but also overlaps in some ways, […]

Trains are an excellent source of streaming data—their movements around the network are an unbounded series of events. Using this data, Apache Kafka® and Confluent Platform can provide the foundations […]

Software projects of all sizes and complexities have a common challenge: building a scalable solution for search. Who has never seen an application use RDBMS SQL statements to run searches? […]

Fraud detection is a topic applicable to many industries, including banking and financial sectors, insurance, government agencies and law enforcement and more. Fraud attempts have seen a drastic increase in […]

In the previous article in this blog series I showed how easy it is to stream data out of a database into Apache Kafka®, using the Kafka Connect API. I […]