Company
Date Published
Author
Bill Bejeck
Word count
2205
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The blog post explores the development of an event-driven application using ksqlDB, Kafka Connect, and Elasticsearch, demonstrated through a clickstream demo. It illustrates how businesses can analyze user behavior and track activities on their websites by collecting and processing streaming data. The demo showcases the use of SQL statements to create streams and tables from clickstream data, enabling real-time analysis of user interactions and errors. By embedding Kafka Connect functionality, the application can export processed data to Elasticsearch for visualization using Grafana, without extensive coding or infrastructure management. The post emphasizes the ease of setting up test data scenarios with the Kafka Connect Datagen Connector and highlights the potential of using these technologies to scale AI-powered solutions within organizations.