Real-Time Monitoring with Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect

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This post details a hackathon project demonstrating real-time wildlife monitoring using Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect. It covers using TensorFlow Lite on a Raspberry Pi for object detection, publishing events to Kafka via the confluent_kafka Python client, processing events with ksqlDB (including sliding window aggregation and JSON field extraction), and visualizing data in Kibana via the Kafka Connect Elasticsearch connector. It also includes setting up a Telegram bot with a Kafka Connect HTTP Sink Connector for rare event alerting (teddy bear sightings).