Where change is welcome.
When we first introduced cluster streaming mode with Apache Spark Streaming 1.3 and Apache Kafka 0.8 several years ago, Kafka didn’t support security features such as TLS (transport encryption, authentication) and Kerberos (authentication). In Spark 2.1, an updated Kafka connector was introduced with support for these features when used with Kafka 0.10 or newer.
Angel Alvarado is a senior software engineer at One Degree, a San Francisco-based non-profit, and also helps run the Molanco data engineering community. In his spare time, Angel enjoys playing Minecraft with his 11 year-old-cousin. Recently, Angel, found a fun way to combine his gaming with data engineering. This blog entry, reposted from the original with Angel’s kind permission, picks up the story…
Data Engineering can get really complex really quick and being aware of the hundreds of tools and data platforms in the industry can get very overwhelming. The following project is about how to use three data engineering tools to visualize data in a video game, it aims to solve a common data engineering problem with a twist to make it fun and entertaining.
Detect, Secure and Govern Sensitive Data Upon Ingestion
StreamSets is excited to announce a new product for protecting data in motion. StreamSets Data Protector, as the name would imply, extends the value of the StreamSets DataOps Platform to enable users to detect, secure and govern sensitive data as it flows around your business. Leveraging StreamSets’ unique “Dataflow Sensors”, Data Protector can spot and act on personally identifiable information (PII) at the point of ingest, further strengthening your ability to meet new and changing regulatory requirements such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).