Getting Started Analyzing Twitter Data in Apache Kafka through KSQL

This post introduces ksqlDB for stream processing on Kafka, demonstrating how to ingest Twitter data using Kafka Connect, define schemas, and perform SQL-like queries. It covers continuous queries, derived streams, and aggregations, highlighting the distinction between streams and tables. The post also shows how to use KSQL to explore and transform streaming data, build aggregates, and create derived tables from aggregated data.