Getting Started Analyzing Twitter Data in Apache Kafka through KSQL

KSQL is the open source streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. It lets you do sophisticated stream processing on Kafka topics, easily, using a simple and interactive SQL interface. In this short article we'll see how easy it is to get up and running with a sandbox for exploring it, using everyone's favourite demo streaming data source: Twitter. We'll go from ingesting the raw stream of tweets, through to filtering it with predicates in KSQL, to building aggregates such as counting the number of tweets per user per hour.