This week there were a couple of new presentations on Apache NiFi worth checking it.   People are using NiFi to read data from files, sensors, devices, logs, MongoDB, Cassandra, relational databases and more.

• Real-Time Data Flow with Apache NiFi
• My talk from the July 14th Princeton Meetup
• Scalable OCR with NiFi (Github)
• From Zero to Data Flow in Hours
• Using Apache NiFi with SAS for Machine Learning

Apache NiFi Updates

• Apache NiFi 0.70 has been relased with the ability to send to Slack!
• Apache NiFi - Minifi was recently released, this is a smaller version for edge servers and small devices.
• Apache NiFi SandBox in Docker.

Apache NiFi Processors (Plugins)

• https://github.com/abajwa-hw/nifi-network-processor
• https://github.com/jahhulbert-ccri/geomesa-nifi
• https://github.com/qntfy/nifi-redis
• https://github.com/simonellistonball/nifi-OpenCV
• https://github.com/MDL/nifi-rabbitmq-bundle
• https://github.com/minyk/nifi-headlessbrowser-processor
• https://github.com/DhruvKumar/nifi-grok-processor-bundle
• https://github.com/acesinc/aces-nifi-processors-bundle
• https://github.com/bikash/RTNiFiStreamProcessors
• https://github.com/simonellistonball/nifi-ml-bundle
• https://github.com/simonellistonball/nifi-AccumuloGraph
• https://github.com/jfrazee/nifi-msgpack-bundle
• https://github.com/mrthethor/NiFixml2JSON
• https://github.com/seanbyrne88/nifi_templates

There's another great project Jeremy Dyer - Raspberry Pi GPIO. There's also a great project to let you test your Apache NiFi scripts (Github).