The Quix blog

Need to process data from frequently disconnected devices? Better use an event streaming platform paired with a powerful stream processing engine. Here's why.

“Build vs buy” is outdated — most companies need tools that provide the flexibility of a build with the convenience of a buy. It’s time for a middle ground.

Learn how to boost success rates ML projects by empowering data teams through a shift-left approach to collaboration and governance.

Discover the benefits, applications and challenges of real-time ML in gaming, and learn how game development studios are implementing real-time ML systems.

Learn how 'shifting left' in data engineering improves data quality by processing it closer to the source, following Netflix's example and modern best practices

Learn how Live Ops and real-time data analytics transform gaming, enabling developers to enhance player retention, optimize monetization, and improve gameplay.

Discover how AI-driven cheating is poisoning online gaming and learn why real-time data processing is crucial for effective, custom AI anti-cheat solutions.

Real-time gaming analytics offer a competitive edge, enabling game developers to create more engaging, personalized, and responsive gaming experiences.

A look at five common issues you might face when working with Structured Streaming, PySpark, and Kafka, along with practical steps to help you overcome them.

A detailed comparison between Faust and Quix Streams covering criteria like performance, coding experience, features, integrations, and product maturity.

Learn how to enrich real-time sensor data streams by looking up device coordinates in Redis and appending them to the data stream using Quix.

Solutions to a common issue that Python developers face when setting up PyFlink to handle real-time data.

Assessing Python clients for Kafka: kafka-python, Confluent, and Quix Streams. Learn how they compare in terms of DevEx, broker compatibility, and performance.

Learn how to use PyFlink for data processing workloads, read about its architecture, and discover its strengths and limitations.

See Quix Streams in action by vizualizing mouse movement patterns in real-time using hopping windows. A Python data streaming tutorial for web analytics.

Learn how Streaming DataFrames can simplify real-time data processing in Python with a familiar DataFrame approach.

Discover what sets stateful stream processing apart from stateless processing and read about its related concepts, challenges and use cases.

Explore streaming windows (including tumbling, sliding and hopping windows) and learn about windowing benefits, use cases and technologies.

Pre-computing features for real-time machine learning reduces the precision of the insights you can draw from data streams. In this guide, we'll look at what real-time feature engineering is and show you a simple example of how you can do it yourself.

The auto.offset.reset configuration defines how Kafka consumers should behave when no initial committed offsets are available for the partitions assigned to them. Learn how to work with this configuration and discover its related challenges.

This comparison specifically focuses on Kafka and Spark's streaming extensions — Kafka Streams and Spark Structured Streaming. Kafka Streams excels in per-record processing with a focus on low latency, while Spark Structured Streaming stands out with its built-in support for complex data processing tasks, including advanced analytics, machine learning and graph processing.

Learn how to set up a decoupled, event-driven pipeline to embed and ingest new content into a vector store as soon as it's published.

Learn how to get started quickly with Hello Quix base template and use it as a foundation for your projects.

Read about the fundamentals of streaming ETL: what it is, how it works and how it compares to batch ETL. Discover streaming ETL technologies, architectures and use cases.