CoC23_Utilizing Real-Time Transit Data for Travel Optimization

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Utilizing Real-Time Transit Data for
Travel Optimization
Tim Spann
Principal Developer Advocate
October-2023

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Tim Spann
@PaasDev www.datainmotion.dev
github.com/tspannhw medium.com/@tspann
Principal Developer Advocate
Princeton Future of Data Meetup
ex-Pivotal, ex-Hortonworks, ex-StreamNative,
ex-PwC, ex-EY, ex-HPE.
Apache NiFi x Apache Kafka x Apache Flink

There are a lot of factors involved in determining how you can find our way around and avoid delays, bad
weather,dangers and expenses. In this talk I will focus on public transport in the largest transit system in
the United States, the MTA,
which is focused around New York City. Utilizing public and semi-public data feeds, this can be extended to
most city and metropolitan areas around the world. As a personal example, I live in New Jersey and this is
an extremely useful use of open source and public
data.
Once I am notified that I need to travel to Manhattan, I need to start my data streams flowing. Most of the
data sources are REST feeds that are ingested by Apache NiFi to transform, convert, enrich and finalize it for
usage in streaming tables with Flink SQL, but also keep that same contract with Kafka consumers, Iceberg
tables and other users of this data. I do not need to many user interfaces to interopt with the system as I
want my final decision sent in a Slack message to me and then I’ll get moving. Along the way data will be
visible in NiFi lineage, Kafka topic views, Flink SQL output, REST output and Iceberg tables.
Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, Apache OpenNLP, Apache Tika, Apache Flink, Apache Avro, Apache Parquet,
Apache Iceberg.
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AGENDA
Introduction
Overview
Sources & Code
Apache Kafka
Apache Flink
Apache NiFi
Demos

DATA
OVERLOAD

OUTGROWING
ONE SERVER

USERS JUST WANTED
ONE TACO

OVERVIEW
OVERVIEW

REAL-TIME REQUIRES A PLATFORM

INGEST OF ALL TRANSIT DATA
Run collection and streaming on any cloud, server,
container or VM
Data Sources Cloudera Data
Flow
Cloudera
Streaming
Analytics
Cloudera
Streams
Processing
Kafka
Lake House

FLaNK-MTA / Urban Transportation

APACHE KAFKA

KAFKA CLUSTER GEO 2
DATA SYNDICATE SERVICES
Kafka Topic
syndicate-
transmission
Kafka Topic
syndicate-
temp
Kafka Topic
syndicate-
speed
Kafka Topic
syndicate-
geo
KAFKA CLUSTER GEO 1
DATA SYNDICATE SERVICES
Kafka Topic
syndicate-
transmission
Kafka Topic
syndicate-
temp
Kafka Topic
syndicate-
speed
Kafka Topic
syndicate-
geo
Apache Kafka
DATA COLLECTION
AT THE EDGE
C++ agent
US-West Fleet
C++ agent
US-Central Fleet
C++ agent
US-East Fleet
INGEST GATEWAY
POWERED BY
KAFKA
gateway-west-
raw-sensors
gateway-central-
raw-sensors
gateway-east-
raw-sensors
DATA FLOW APPS
POWERED BY NIFI
STREAMING
ANALYTICS APPS
Micro Batch Analytics
Stream Analytics App
Micro Services
Complex Low Latent
Apache
Flink
Structured
Streaming
Replication /
Data Deployment
MiNiFi Apache Kafka Apache NiFi Apache Kafka Apache Flink

APACHE FLINK
I Can Haz Data?

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Apache Flink SQL
Democratize access to real-time data with just SQL

APACHE NIFI

RECORD-ORIENTED DATA WITH NIFI
• Record Readers - Avro, CSV, Grok, IPFIX, JSAN1, JSON, Parquet,
Scripted, Syslog5424, Syslog, WindowsEvent, XML
• Record Writers - Avro, CSV, FreeFromText, Json, Parquet,
Scripted, XML
• Record Reader and Writer support referencing a schema registry
for retrieving schemas when necessary.
• Enable processors that accept any data format without having to
worry about the parsing and serialization logic.
• Allows us to keep FlowFiles larger, each consisting of multiple
records, which results in far better performance.

PROVENANCE

APACHE NIFI WITH PYTHON CUSTOM PROCESSORS
Python as a First Class Citizen
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asciidoc/python-developer-guide.adoc

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Future of Data - NYC / Princeton + Virtual
@PaasDev
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Cloud to Analytics to Cloud Storage to Fast Data to
Machine Learning to Microservices to ...

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