Data Pipelines: Cassandra, Kafka and Python (and Go!)

Last year I started working on a ‘Big Data’ exercise. It’s an ongoing project that mixes large amounts of web traffic, data ingestion and analytics. It’s also really fun. We get to play with an array of new technologies – sometimes on a bet, granted – but…

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