dale lane

aka “Who wants a Mario alarm clock?”

In this post, I want to share a quick demo of using Event Processing to process social media posts.

Background

A fun surprise from Nintendo today: they’ve introduced a new product! “Alarmo” is a game-themed alarm clock, with some interesting gesture recognition features.

I was (unsurprisingly!) tempted…

But that got me wondering how the rest of the Internet was reacting.

In this post, I want to share a (super-simple!) demo for how to look at this – using IBM Event Processing to create an Apache Flink job that looks at the sentiment of social media posts about this unusual new product.

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This is the fifth in a series of blog posts sharing examples of ways to use Mirror Maker 2 with IBM Event Streams.

• Using Mirror Maker 2 to aggregate events from multiple regions
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to broadcast events to multiple regions
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to share topics across multiple regions
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to create a failover cluster
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to restore events from a backup cluster
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to migrate to a different region

Mirror Maker 2 is a powerful and flexible tool for moving Kafka events between Kafka clusters.

For this fifth post, I’ll look at using Mirror Maker to maintain a backup of your Kafka events, and to be able to restore from that backup.

This is more complex than the previous posts as there are multiple stages involved. For each stage, I’ll explain the intent and share the demo script I’ve created to let you try this for yourself.

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This is the fourth in a series of blog posts sharing examples of ways to use Mirror Maker 2 with IBM Event Streams.

• Using Mirror Maker 2 to aggregate events from multiple regions
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to broadcast events to multiple regions
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to share topics across multiple regions
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to create a failover cluster
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to restore events from a backup cluster
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to migrate to a different region

Mirror Maker 2 is a powerful and flexible tool for moving Kafka events between Kafka clusters.

For this fourth post, I’ll look at using Mirror Maker to create an active/passive topology with a backup cluster ready to failover to.

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This is the third in a series of blog posts sharing examples of ways to use Mirror Maker 2 with IBM Event Streams.

• Using Mirror Maker 2 to aggregate events from multiple regions
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to broadcast events to multiple regions
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to share topics across multiple regions
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to create a failover cluster
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to restore events from a backup cluster
• Using Mirror Maker 2 to migrate to a different region

Mirror Maker 2 is a powerful and flexible tool for moving Kafka events between Kafka clusters, but sometimes I feel like this can be forgotten if we only talk about it in the context of disaster recovery.

In these posts, I want to inspire you to think about other ways you could use Mirror Maker 2. The best way to learn about what is possible is to play with it for yourself, so with these posts I’ll include a script to create a demonstration of the scenario.

For this third post, I’ll look at using Mirror Maker to create logical topics shared across multiple regions.

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