Experiencing Apache Kafka without a streaming dataset is impossible, and finding streaming datasets ready to be used with Kafka is quite difficult.

This video showcases how you can start creating fake streaming data in minutes using Docker.

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Follow the set of instructions to create a fake streaming dataset in our docs https://docs.aiven.io/docs/products/kafka/howto/fake-sample-data

Check out the fake data repository on GitHub https://github.com/aiven/fake-data-producer-for-apache-kafka-docker

Find out how you can customize the fake data generators with Python https://github.com/aiven/python-fake-data-producer-for-apache-kafka

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CHAPTERS

00:25 The fake data producer for Apache Kafka on Docker GitHub repository

1:05 The fake data producer parameters

3:46 Starting the fake data producer

5:30 Checking the data in Apache Kafka

7:14 Recap of the problem and solution

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