Introduction In this post, we present an introductory example using Apache Pinot to ingest an Apache Kafka stream. This is an introductory post that builds upon existing Apache Pinot material from the official trainings and documentation. The purpose here is not just to rehash what is in the official docs, but a preparation for a second part. The idea, is to adapt the official examples to this end. Moreover, when I tried to run these examples, I had some extra ideas in how to better present the material. Part of the presented setup is also based on yet another Apache Pinot example in a complementary series of lectures that is written for Javascript. Our focus here is Python . Here are the two references I used Lecture 4 ( https://github.com/startreedata/learn/tree/main/pinot-advanced/04-stream-ingestion ). It is a series of advanced Pinot usage from Startree. I Ported the JS example to Python.…