This is a self-contained demo of FastAPI and . Materialize This demo project contains the following components: : A fast, modern, and feature-rich framework for building APIs with Python. FastAPI : Kafka® compatible event streaming platform written in C++. Redpanda : A streaming database for real-time analytics. Materialize A mock service written in . The mock service simulates data of air quality readings of IoT devices. BASH for producing records to a Redpanda topic Diagram Running the demo Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/bobbyiliev/materialize-tutorials.git Access the FastAPI demo project directory: cd mz-fastapi-demo Pull all Docker images: docker-compose pull Build the project: docker-compose build Finally, run all containers: docker-compose up Create the Materialize sources and views Once the demo is running, you can create the Materialize sources and views. Let's start by creating a Redpanda/Kafka : source CREATE SOURCE sensors
FROM KAFKA BROKER 'redpanda:9092' TOPIC 'sensors'
FORMAT BYTES; Then create a which you can think of essentially an alias that we will use to create our materialized views. The non-materialized views do not store the results of the query: non-materialized view CREATE VIEW sensors_data AS
    SELECT
        *
    FROM (
        SELECT
            (data->>'id')::int AS id,
            (data->>'pm25')::double AS pm25,
            (data->>'pm10')::double AS pm10,
            (data->>'geo_lat')::double AS geo_lat,
            (data->>'geo_lon')::double AS geo_lon,
            (data->>'timestamp')::double AS timestamp
        FROM (
            SELECT CAST(data AS jsonb) AS data
            FROM (
                SELECT convert_from(data, 'utf8') AS data
                FROM sensors
            )
        )
    ); After that, create a materialized view that will hold all records in the last 10 minutes: CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW sensors_view AS
    SELECT
        *
    FROM sensors_data
    WHERE
        mz_logical_timestamp() < (timestamp*1000 + 100000)::numeric; Note that we are using the function rather than the function. This is because in Materialize doesn’t represent the system time, as it does in most systems; it represents the time with timezone when the query was executed. It cannot be used when creating views. For more information, see the documentation . mz_logical_timestamp() now() now() here Next, let's create materialized view that will only include data from the last second so we can see the dataflow and use it for our Server-Sent Events (SSE) demo later on: CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW sensors_view_1s AS
    SELECT
        *
    FROM sensors_data
    WHERE
        mz_logical_timestamp() < (timestamp*1000 + 6000)::numeric; With that our materialized views are ready and we can visit the FastAPI demo project in the browser! FastAPI Demo Finally, visit the FastAPI demo app via your browser: Endpoint for all records in the last 10 minutes: http://localhost/sensors SSE Endpoint streaming the latest records as they are generated using : TAIL http://localhost/stream Example response: Materialize Cloud If you want to run the demo on the cloud, you would need the following: A publicly accessible Redpanda/Kafka instance so that you can connect to it. A Materialize Cloud account. You can sign up for a free account to get started with Materialize Cloud. Materialize Cloud If you already have that setup, you would need to make the following changes to the demo project: When creating the source, change the to your Redpanda/Kafka instance: redpanda:9092 CREATE SOURCE sensors
FROM KAFKA BROKER 'your_redpanda_instance:9092' TOPIC 'sensors'
FORMAT BYTES; Change the environment variable to your Materialize Cloud database URL and uncomment the certificate-specific environment variables in the file.
in the file. DATABASE_URL docker-compose.yml docker-compose.yml Download the Materialize instance certificate files from your Materialize Cloud dashboard. Stop the demo To stop the demo, run the following command: docker-compose down -v You can also stop only the data generation container: docker-compose stop datagen Helpful Links Materialize Materialize Cloud Redpanda CREATE SOURCE CREATE VIEW CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW

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