Maximizing Real-Time Data Processing with Apache Kafka and InfluxDB: A Comprehensive Guide

Combining Apache Kafka and InfluxDB can provide a powerful data pipeline for processing and analyzing real-time data. Kafka can be used to ingest data from various sources and stream it to InfluxDB for storage and processing. InfluxDB can then be used to analyze and visualize the data, providing insights and actionable information in real-time. This architecture can be especially useful for IoT applications, where large volumes of sensor data are generated in real-time and need to be processed and analyzed quickly. InfluxDB now offers storage in a parquet file format built on top of the Apache Arrow project that allows for querying in SQL and integration to a larger variety of visualization and analysis tools that Kafka users can now take advantage of. This talk will go into connecting the two platforms and the why, how, and what you can accomplish by doing so.