Simulating a workload for streaming data

In this recipe, you will learn how to simulate the vehicle sensor data that can be sent to Event Hubs. In this recipe, we will be running a Python script that will be generating the sensor data for 10 vehicle IDs and learn how the events can be pushed to Event Hubs for Kafka.

Getting ready

Before you start on this recipe, make sure you have the latest version of Python installed on the machine from which you will be running the Python script. The Python script was tested on Python 3.8.

• You need to install confluent_kafka libraries by running pip install confluent_kafka from bash, PowerShell, or Command Prompt.
• You need to have Azure Event Hubs for Kafka, which is mentioned in the previous recipe, Creating required Azure resources for the E2E demonstration. In the mentioned recipe, you can find out how to get the Event Hubs connection string that will be used for the bootstrap.servers notebook variable.
• The Python script...