The Quix blog
Tutorials
February 12, 2024
Continuously ingest documents into a vector store using Quix, Qdrant, and Apache Kafka
Learn how to set up a decoupled, event-driven pipeline to embed and ingest new content into a vector store as soon as it's published.
Tutorials
February 9, 2024
Get started in minutes with the Hello Quix template
Learn how to get started quickly with Hello Quix base template and use it as a foundation for your projects.
Tutorials
January 25, 2024
AI Bots as difficult customers—generating synthetic customer conversations using Llama-2, Kafka and LangChain
Learn the basics for running your own AI-powered support bots and understand the challenges involved in using AI for customer support.
Tutorials
January 22, 2024
How to create a project from a template in Quix
Learn how to get started quickly with Quix project templates and use them as a reference to build your own event-driven, stream-processing application.
Tutorials
December 8, 2023
Predict 3D printer failures in real-time using sensor data
Deploy a reference application that shows you how to do real-time predictive analytics on sensor data from a simulated fleet of 3D printers.
Tutorials
November 30, 2023
Analyze clickstream data in real time and trigger special offers based on user behavior
Learn how to analyze clickstream data in real time using Python. Trigger frontend events and show aggregations in a real-time dashboard—using Quix, Streamlit and Redis Cloud.
Tutorials
October 17, 2023
Build and deploy your own traffic monitoring app using computer vision
Learn how to fork our new computer vision template and deploy an application that uses London's traffic cameras to gauge current congestion by leveraging object detection to count vehicles.
Tutorials
May 31, 2023
How to fix the unknown partition error in Kafka
A look at the most common causes of Kafka's "unknown topic or partition" error along with practical steps and solutions to help you fix it.
Tutorials
April 26, 2023
A practical introduction to stream reprocessing in Python
Learn how to reprocess a stream of data with the Quix Streams Python library and Apache Kafka. You'll ingest some GPS telemetry data into a topic and replay the stream to try out different distance calculation methods.
Tutorials
March 8, 2023
How to use gzip data compression with Apache Kafka and Python
Learn why data compression is vital and how use it with Kafka and kafka-python, focussing on gzip—one of the strongest compression tools that Kafka supports.
Tutorials
February 8, 2023
Build a simple event-driven system to get ML predictions with Python and Apache Kafka
Use the Quix Streams Python library to continuously stream email records from a CSV file, get an ML inference for each record, then stream the results back to a new Kafka topic.
Tutorials
January 10, 2023
How to send tabular time series data to Apache Kafka with Python and Pandas
Use Python to process time series data and send it to Apache Kafka. You'll use a large sample data set from an online-retailer and send the records in batches with Pandas and the kafka-python library.
Tutorials
December 7, 2022
How to deploy a currency alerting pipeline with Quix and CoinAPI
How to build a powerful currency alerting pipeline in a few minutes with Quix and CoinAPI.
Tutorials
November 9, 2022
Build a CDC pipeline with the Quix SQL Server connector
Create a CDC pipeline and publish data to Kafka topics in just a few minutes with our open source SQL Server connector.
Tutorials
August 9, 2022
Four solutions for handling time series data
Most data in streaming applications such as IoT, finance, user behavior analysis and automotive is time-series data. Learn how to capture, process and apply it to get the most value from it.
Tutorials
July 7, 2022
Your guide to contributing to the Quix library
When, why, and how to contribute code samples to the Quix library.
Tutorials
May 23, 2022
How to build a no-code pipeline for sentiment analysis with our Snowflake connector
Three Quix connectors let you move data from Twitter to a Snowflake database while transforming it along the way. Learn how to set up the pipeline without writing any code.
Tutorials
January 18, 2022
How to develop a usage-based pricing system
How we engineered usage-based pricing on a message broker, with an in-depth guide to technical implementation and code samples.