Robin Moffatt does some exploratory data analysis:
One of the challenges that I’d always had when it came to building streaming data pipelines is that once data is in a Kafka topic, it becomes trickier to query. Whether limited by the available tools to do this or the speed of access, querying Kafka is just not a smooth experience.
This blog post will show you a really nice way of exploring and validating data in Apache Kafka®. We’ll use Tableflow to expose the Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg™️ tables and then query them using standard SQL tools.
Click through for the demonstration using a real dataset.