
3/12/2024 · Dillon Carlson
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This post details how Confluent's Data Streaming Platform, including connectors and stream processing with Flink, can be applied to build real-time data pipelines for smart warehouses. It highlights the integration of IoT sensor data, inventory data from SQL Server and PostgreSQL, and robot status data. The post showcases how cluster linking enables hybrid cloud deployments and how Flink SQL can be used to process this data into actionable insights like low battery alerts and inventory counts. It also mentions the use of Confluent Connectors to ingest data from various sources and output to systems like Google BigQuery and GCS.