🪝 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 :

☝️ 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 :

• cURL
• pipe
• kcat
• xls2csv
• jq
• tail
• head
• cut
• comm
• sort
• column
• sed
• awk
• wc

🍿 Full demo

🔖 Resources

• Dedicated Killercoda scenario