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Stream Rows and Kafka Topics Directly into Snowflake with Snowpipe Streaming

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To address this challenge, we are happy to announce the public preview of Snowpipe Streaming as the latest addition to our Snowflake ingestion offerings. As part of this, we are also supporting Snowpipe Streaming as an ingestion method for our Snowflake Connector for Kafka. How does Snowpipe Streaming work?

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Apache Kafka Data Access Semantics: Consumers and Membership

Confluent

Every developer who uses Apache Kafka ® has used a Kafka consumer at least once. Although it is the simplest way to subscribe to and access events from Kafka, behind the scenes, Kafka consumers handle tricky distributed systems challenges like data consistency, failover and load balancing. Consistency.

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Real-Time Analytics and Monitoring Dashboards with Apache Kafka and Rockset

Confluent

In the early days, many companies simply used Apache Kafka ® for data ingestion into Hadoop or another data lake. However, Apache Kafka is more than just messaging. Some Kafka and Rockset users have also built real-time e-commerce applications , for example, using Rockset’s Java, Node.js

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Best Practices for Data Ingestion with Snowflake: Part 3 

Snowflake

Welcome to the third blog post in our series highlighting Snowflake’s data ingestion capabilities, covering the latest on Snowpipe Streaming (currently in public preview) and how streaming ingestion can accelerate data engineering on Snowflake. What is Snowpipe Streaming?

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Internet of Things (IoT) and Event Streaming at Scale with Apache Kafka and MQTT

Confluent

A key challenge, however, is integrating devices and machines to process the data in real time and at scale. Apache Kafka ® and its surrounding ecosystem, which includes Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and KSQL, have become the technology of choice for integrating and processing these kinds of datasets. Example: Severstal.

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8 Data Ingestion Tools (Quick Reference Guide)

Monte Carlo

At the heart of every data-driven decision is a deceptively simple question: How do you get the right data to the right place at the right time? The growing field of data ingestion tools offers a range of answers, each with implications to ponder. Fivetran Image courtesy of Fivetran.

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?? On Track with Apache Kafka – Building a Streaming ETL Solution with Rail Data

Confluent

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 for both event-driven applications as well as an analytical platform. As with any real system, the data has “character.”

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