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⌨️ Pipe xlsx files into/from Kafka... From cli with (k)cat 🙀

🪝 Teaser

What you'll discover in this post is how we could, within a dedicated KillerCoda scenario :

  • Literally pipe data to and from Kafka, from (and to) any file, with the | operator
  • Visualize data on a cool web interface on Redpanda Console

🍒 on the 🍰

We'll play with real life data from isee.nc :

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☝️ Now... to fully enjoy this post, please be sure to really

👉 deeply understand what pipe is, how and why it was created... and all the amazing opportunities it opened since its early ages.

🪄 Intro : Unix Pipeline 🦸‍♂️

Spend 5' to deeply understand how and why the | was created and why it still matters (a lot) today.

🧰 Tools (and Philosophy) 🏺

Now, you can jump start in the demo where we'll do everything from the terminal thanks to all these amazing, UNIX Philosophic single-purposed tools :

🍿 Full demo

🔖 Resources

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Antoine Arthur

Quite interesting resource and very useful Killercoda scenario. I've done it a few times to get the hang of Kafka and its mechanisms.

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adriens

Thanks a lot for the kind feedback bro' 🙏

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Some related content :

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Robin Moffatt • Edited

Sounds cool - but where's the actual code? Is it only in the video?

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adriens

Check the Killecoda scenario : killercoda.com/opt-labs/course/kaf...

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