We have data on IT practices from 500 experts in the field - but what does any of it mean to a CTO in the know? We asked our own Heikki Nousiainen for insights.
How can you test an empty data pipeline? Well, you can't, really. Read on and let's walk you through creating pretend streaming data using Python and Faker.
In an earlier blog post we talked about how to stream data from the Mastodon timeline into an Apache Kafka® cluster. If you missed it, read it to learn how to connect to Mastodon and stream data into an Apache Kafka topic. This article assumes that you already have an Apache Kafka environment running with data in a topic that is called Mastodon.