In this blog, we discuss using Spark Structured streaming via Datastax Enterprise version 6.8.15 to process crypto trade information made available on a Kafka topic. Data sent to the Kafka topic is generated from CryptoCompare API and streamed through Websockets and consumed using Akka.

In Apache Cassandra Lunch #68: DataStax Apache Kafka Connector, we introduce the DataStax Apache Kafka Connector and discuss how we can use it to connect Apache Kafka and Cassandra. The live recording of Cassandra Lunch, which includes a more in-depth discussion and a demo, is embedded below in case you were not able to attend live. If you would like to attend Apache Cassandra Lunch live, it is hosted every Wednesday at 12 PM EST. Register here now!

In this blog, we recap Cassandra Lunch #18, where we had guest speaker, Ryan Quey, discuss and demo a personal project where he uses multiple technologies, including Cassandra and Kafka, to build an app that grabs podcast data related to topics he inputs, stores it, processes it and displays it on searchable a front-end. In case you missed it, the video of Cassandra Lunch is also embedded in the blog!