Spring Cloud Data Flow

Spring Cloud Data Flow requires quite a few dependencies in order to run it. In this blog post, I will show you Docker Compose tool and how it can be used to make that setup easy. I have written an introduction to Spring Cloud Data Flow where in order to run the Data Flow server, you need to have 3 other Docker containers running. This is not that bad, but imagine if you had to have more dependencies? Or if you want to have that process easily replicable? Sharing that setup with other developers on the team? You can see that it would be good to have a better way of doing this… ...

I have recently spent quite a lot of time playing with Spring Cloud Data Flow (SCDF). It is an amazing platform that can be used for many things. Talking about it with some of my colleagues I realized that not everyone knows what are the common use cases. Thinking about it further I realized that I don’t know the full scope of capabilities and business problems that it can solve! In this article I look at different uses for Spring Cloud Data Flow based on what the platform offers and actual stories from companies using it in production. The examples come from Spring One Platform 2017 conference. ...

Last week I wrote about getting Started with Spring Cloud Data Flow. This week I want to show you a few more things that you can do with this amazing platform. In this article I will show you how to make your own Apps that can be part of Data Flow Streams and how to use the Data Flow Shell to control the platform. I assume here that you know how to get you Data Flow up and running and you are familiar with the basics of the platform. If not- don’t worry! Check out my Getting Started with Spring Cloud Data Flow article to learn the basics. ...

In this article, I will show you how you can get started with Spring Cloud Data Flow. Spring Cloud Data Flow is an amazing platform for building data integration and processing pipelines. It has a very user-friendly graphical dashboard where you can define your streams, making your work with data an absolute pleasure. The goal of this article is to have you learn to build some simple data pipelines by the time you are finished reading. Before we get started there are a few system requirements: ...