Apache NiFi

What is Apache NiFi? In any organization, we know that there is a variety of systems. Some systems generate the data and other systems consume that data. Apache NiFi is built to automate that data flow from one system to another. Apache NiFi is a data flow management system that comes with a web UI that helps to build data flows in real time. It supports flow-based programming. The graph programming includes a series of nodes and edges through which data moves. In NiFi, these nodes are translated into processors, and the edges into connectors. The data is stored in a packet of information called a FlowFile. This FlowFile includes content, attributes, and edges. As a user, you connect processors together using connectors to define ...

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