Shopify Dashboarding (Part 1): Build a Shopify-to-Kafka Gateway

  • Confluent Cloud, event stream processing, Kafka, Shopify, Streamsheets
In this video post you learn how you can build a cloud-based Streamsheet that serves as a gateway between Shopify webhooks (executed by a Shopify Online Store) and Apache Kafka (hosted on Confluent Cloud).
In my previous blog posts I concentrated on IoT examples and using MQTT as a message broker. In this and in the following post I will demonstrate that the scope of Streamsheets goes far beyond this. I will show a use case with two Streamsheets. One Streamsheets runs in the cloud and connects a Shopify online store with a Apache Kafka in the cloud. The second Streamsheet runs locally behind the firewall and will provide a real time sales dashboard, consuming the data from the Kafka Cluster. The following slide shows the setup of this use case.
This image shows the setup of the Shopify-to-Kafka gateway build up. Same image is used in part 1 and 2 of this series.

I split the whole use case into two blog posts (and 2 videos respectively). In this post, I talk about the first Streamsheet that runs in the cloud and connects a Shopify online store with the Apache Kafka Cluster in the Confluent Cloud. In the second post, you will see the Streamsheet which runs locally behind the firewall and provides a real time sales dashboard, consuming the data from the Kafka Cluster.

I recommended watching the following video in full screen mode. The video is 12 minutes long. 

Build a Shopify-to-Kafka Gateway with Streamsheets

Read the second part of this blog post here.

Kristian Raue

Kristian Raue

Kristian is a serial Entrepreneur as well as Co-Founder of and Chief Evangelist at Cedalo. Currently, he focuses especially on topics around MQTT, Apache Kafka and the IoT.

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