Demos & In-depth Examples

Learn Kafka

Try out these basic event-driven applications to learn how Kafka works and see streaming in action. All use a command line interface to stream data into Confluent Cloud, where you see the results.

	Realtime AIS Vessel Tracking Follow along with this tutorial-style demo to learn how to set up Confluent Cloud and analyze data using ksqldb. We'll use AIS, which is an automatic tracking system used by ships, and pull live public data from it including the ships' speed, location, and other details. We'll then feed that data into an Apache Kafka® topic via a connection to Confluent Cloud. Afterward, we'll build streams using ksqlDB and run analyses on that data.
	Streaming Games Build a realtime 2048 game powered by Confluent and AWS. User data from the interface deployed on AWS is stored in Kafka topics and high scores are aggregated in ksqlDB.
	Realtime GitHub Commits Learn how to set up the Confluent GitHub Connector and then how to generate your own data with commit events that surface to the Confluent interface!
	Realtime Bicycle Rentals You'll use live data from the British government on bicycle hires and pipe it into a Kafka topic!
DataGen AIS BBS RSS and more...	Sources of Realtime Data List of easy-to-access sources of real-time data to play with.

Kafka in Action

These demos feature more in-depth use cases around data pipelining…

Stream Data to Cloud Databases with Confluent Cloud This demo walks you through building streaming data pipelines with Confluent Cloud. It uses ksqlDB to combine data from an RDBMS and a message queue, writing the output to MongoDB Atlas.

Real-time Data Warehousing This demo, similar to the above demo, walks you through building streaming data pipelines between an RDBMS and either Snowflake or Databricks using Confluent Cloud.

Using Kafka For Microservices This demo shows by example how to incrementally break a monolithic application into microservices.

cp-demo Full-platform, feature-rich demo of a hybrid deployment of Confluent from on-premises to cloud, with stream processing applications, security, monitoring, and data governance features

Stream Designer Demo This demo uses Stream Designer to join CDC data from an RDBMS with sample clickstream data.

Even More Want more? Check out these other collections of examples https://github.com/confluentinc/examples https://github.com/confluentinc/demo-scene https://github.com/confluentinc