Apache Nifi Crash Course

Introduction: This workshop will provide a hands on introduction to simple event data processing and data flow processing using a Sandbox on students’ personal machines.

Format: A short introductory lecture to Apache NiFi and computing used in the lab followed by a demo, lab exercises and a Q&A session. The lecture will be followed by lab time to work through the lab exercises and ask questions.

Objective: To provide a quick and short hands-on introduction to Apache NiFi. In the lab, you will install and use Apache NiFi to collect, conduct and curate data-in-motion and data-at-rest with NiFi. You will learn how to connect and consume streaming sensor data, filter and transform the data and persist to multiple data sources.

Pre-requisites: Registrants must bring a laptop that has the latest VirtualBox installed and an image for Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF) Sandbox will be provided.

Speakers: Andy LoPresto, Timothy Spann