Data streaming and how to influence business decisions
In data streaming, data flows in continuously. That means that data is processed instantly and in real or near real-time. This is an advantage over batch processing where it’s required for data to be downloaded in batches first. It’s an obvious benefit for decision-making. Here, decision-makers get data at the time of the event and […]
How to setup a Kafka Streaming project
If you’ve read the previous blog post about this project, you should already know what was the main idea of the project. We’re trying to estimate the unit sales of more than 3000 distinct items in 10 different Walmart stores. The dataset provides us with more than 5 years of data about the dates on […]