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Stock price events for Kafka

Saturday, August 28th, 2021

I’ve made a Kafka Connect source connector for sending “real-time” (not really) stock price events to a Kafka topic.

Choose your stock (e.g. “IBM“) and run the Connector pointed at your topic, and every minute a JSON event will be produced like:

{"open":137.9,"high":137.9,"low":137.9,"close":137.9,"volume":500,"timestamp":1629421200,"datetime":"2021-08-19 20:00:00"}

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