The Quix blog

Community
April 28, 2023
The Stream — April 2023 edition
A monthly round-up of the most interesting news coming out of the stream processing ecosystem

Tutorial
April 26, 2023
A practical introduction to stream reprocessing in Python
Learn how to reprocess a stream of data with the Quix Streams Python library and Apache Kafka. You'll ingest some GPS telemetry data into a topic and replay the stream to try out different distance calculation methods.

Explainer
April 20, 2023
Quix as an Apache Flink alternative: a side-by-side comparison
Explore the differences between Quix and Apache Flink and find out when it's better to use Quix as a Flink alternative. If you’re searching for Apache Flink alternatives, this guide offers a detailed, fair comparison to help you make an informed decision.

Explainer
April 12, 2023
Kinesis vs Kafka - A comparison of streaming data platforms
A detailed comparison of Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis that covers categories such as operational attributes, pricing model, and time to production while highlighting their key differences and use cases that they typically address.

Community
March 31, 2023
The Stream — March 2023 edition
A monthly round-up of the most interesting news coming out of the stream processing ecosystem

Explainer
March 28, 2023
Exploring real-time and batch analytics for e-bike telemetry with Quix and AWS
How Brompton's experiments with Quix and AWS technology are paving the way for an enhanced e-bike riding experience.

Tutorial
March 8, 2023
How to use gzip data compression with Apache Kafka and Python
Learn why data compression is vital and how use it with Kafka and kafka-python, focussing on gzip—one of the strongest compression tools that Kafka supports.

Community
March 2, 2023
Introducing Quix Streams, an open source library for telemetry data streaming
Lightweight, powerful, no JVM and no need for separate clusters of orchestrators. Here’s a look at our next-gen streaming library for C# and Python developers including feature summaries, code samples, and a sneak peek into our roadmap.

Community
February 28, 2023
The Stream — February 2023 edition
Build a simple event-driven system to get ML predictions with Python and Apache Kafka

Tutorial
February 8, 2023
Build a simple event-driven system to get ML predictions with Python and Apache Kafka
Use the Quix Streams Python library to continuously stream email records from a CSV file, get an ML inference for each record, then stream the results back to a new Kafka topic.

Community
January 25, 2023
The Stream — January 2023 edition
How can you send time-series data to Apache Kafka using Python and Pandas? Plus Apache Flink news, memes, and meetups

Tutorial
January 10, 2023
How to send tabular time series data to Apache Kafka with Python and Pandas
Use Python to process time series data and send it to Apache Kafka. You'll use a large sample data set from an online-retailer and send the records in batches with Pandas and the kafka-python library.

Community
December 21, 2022
The Stream — December 2022 edition
The December 2022 edition of The Stream: covering this month in stream processing on the internet.

Tutorial
December 7, 2022
How to deploy a currency alerting pipeline with Quix and CoinAPI
How to build a powerful currency alerting pipeline in a few minutes with Quix and CoinAPI.

Community
November 30, 2022
The Stream — November 2022 edition
The November 2022 edition of The Stream: covering this month in stream processing on the internet.

Quix
November 14, 2022
Quix raises $12.9m Series A to accelerate event-driven data apps
Why we've partnered with MMC Ventures, Project A Ventures and Passion Capital to accelerate our growth.

Explainer
November 9, 2022
Build a CDC pipeline with the Quix SQL Server connector
Create a CDC pipeline and publish data to Kafka topics in just a few minutes with our open source SQL Server connector.

Community
October 31, 2022
The Stream — October 2022 edition
The October 2022 edition of The Stream: covering this month in stream processing on the internet.