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How to Read a CSV File from Amazon S3 Using Python (With Headers and Rows Displayed)

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  Introduction If you’re working with cloud data, especially on AWS, chances are you’ll encounter data stored in CSV files inside an Amazon S3 bucket . Whether you're building a data pipeline or a quick analysis tool, reading data directly from S3 in Python is a fast, reliable, and scalable way to get started. In this blog post, we’ll walk through: Setting up access to S3 Reading a CSV file using Python and Boto3 Displaying headers and rows Tips to handle larger datasets Let’s jump in! What You’ll Need An AWS account An S3 bucket with a CSV file uploaded AWS credentials (access key and secret key) Python 3.x installed boto3 and pandas libraries installed (you can install them via pip) pip install boto3 pandas Step-by-Step: Read CSV from S3 Let’s say your S3 bucket is named my-data-bucket , and your CSV file is sample-data/employees.csv . ✅ Step 1: Import Required Libraries import boto3 import pandas as pd from io import StringIO boto3 is...

Messages in Kafka the Types and Details

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A message, also called a record, is the basic piece of data flowing through Kafka. Messages are how Kafka represents your data. Kafka producer Vs. consumer messages Kafka is an intermediate server that receives a message from a producer and sends them to the consumer. Here is a set of 10 Kafka Interview Questions. Kafka message format Each message has a timestamp, a value, and an optional key. Custom headers can be used if desired as well.  A simple example of a message could be something like the following: the machine with host ID “1234567” (a message key) failed with the message “Alert: Machine Failed” (a message value) at “2020-10-02T10:34:11.654Z” (a message timestamp). Here is Kafka's flowchart for dummies. Kafka record The above image shows probably the most important and common parts of a message that users deal with directly. Each key and value can interact in its own specific ways to serialize or deserialize its data. Now that we have a record, how do we let Kafka know ab...