Handling (and ingesting) data streams at 500K mess/s
By Francesc Alted. He is a freelance consultant and developing author of different open source libraries like PyTables, Blosc, bcolz and numexpr and an experienced programmer in Python and C. Francesc collaborates regularly with the The HDF Group in different projects. We explain our solution for handling big data streams using HDF5 (with a little help from other tools). In the ubiquitously connected world that we live in, there are good reasons to understand what data is transferred across a network and how to extract information out of it. Being able to capture and log the different network packets can be used for many tasks including: Protecting against cyber threats Enforcing policy Extracting and consolidating valuable information Debugging protocols/services Understanding how users use...