Stream Processing
Incremental Data Processing Framework
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Distributed Event Streaming Platform
★ 4.8
pip install hudipip install confluent-kafkapip install hudipip install confluent-kafkaPython data engineers use Hudi with PySpark to build CDC (Change Data Capture) pipelines on data lakes — ingesting database change events from Kafka and applying upserts to Hudi tables on S3 using `UPSERT` operation type. Hudi handles deduplication and merge semantics automatically, enabling mutable data lake tables without full partition rewrites.
Python data engineers use `confluent-kafka-python` or `kafka-python` to produce events to topics and consume them in real-time. A common pattern is a Faust or plain consumer loop that reads messages, transforms them with pandas or Pydantic, and writes results to a database or another topic. Kafka is the backbone of event-driven data architectures in Python shops.
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