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Creating a Custom Processor for StreamSets Data Collector

By October 19, 2016

gps image dataBack in March, I wrote a tutorial showing how to create a custom destination for StreamSets Data Collector (SDC). Since then I’ve been looking for a good sample use case for a custom processor. It’s tricky to find one, since the set of out-of-the-box processors is pretty extensive now! In particular, the scripting processors make it easy to operate on records with Groovy, JavaScript or Jython, without needing to break out the Java compiler.

Looking at the Whole File data format, introduced last month in SDC 1.6.0.0, inspired me… Our latest tutorial, Creating a Custom StreamSets Processor, explains how to extract metadata tags from image files as they are ingested, adding them to records as fields.

The Challenge of Fetching Data for Apache Spot (incubating)

By October 19, 2016

Reposted from the Cloudera Vision blog.

What do Sony, Target and the Democratic Party have in common?

Besides being well-respected brands, they’ve all been subject to some very public and embarrassing hacks over the past 24 months. Because cybercrime is no longer driven by angst-ridden teenagers but rather professional criminal organizations and state-sponsored hacker groups, the halcyon days of looking for a threat signatures are well behind us.

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