Streaming & messaging
Kafka-style pub/sub, event consumers, async pipelines, and message-driven workflows.
Mock Watermark Late Event Side Output in Python
Simulates watermarking in a streaming pipeline by classifying events as on-time or late using timestamps and delays.
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from typing import List, Tuple
def watermark_mock(
events: List[Tuple[datetime, str]], watermark_delay: timedelta, max_delay: timedelta
) -> Tuple[List[Tuple[datetime, str]], List[Tuple[datetime, str]]]:
"""Simulate watermarking: events arriving on time vs. late by ch…
Redis Pub/Sub Channel Subscribe Mock in Python
A lightweight in-memory mock of Redis pub/sub that lets you subscribe to channels, publish messages, and verify handler behavior in tests without a real Redis server.
class MockRedisPubSub:
def __init__(self):
self.channels = {}
def subscribe(self, channel):
if channel not in self.channels:
self.channels[channel] = []
return self.channels[channel]
def publish(self, channel, message):
if channel in self.channels:
…
Simulate RabbitMQ QoS Prefetch Count in Python
Mocks RabbitMQ QoS prefetch semantics using threading and a queue to cap concurrent unacked message processing per worker.
import threading
import time
import queue
class RabbitMQMock:
def __init__(self, prefetch_count=1):
self.prefetch_count = prefetch_count
self.channel_queue = queue.Queue()
self.currently_processing = 0
self.lock = threading.Lock()
def start_consuming(self, messages, worker_co…
Sliding Window Average with Deque in Python
Computes the running average of a sliding window over streaming numbers using a collections.deque for O(1) pop-left operations.
from collections import deque
class SlidingAverage:
def __init__(self, window_size):
self.window_size = window_size
self.window = deque()
self.total = 0
def add(self, value):
self.window.append(value)
self.total += value
if len(self.window) > self.window_size:
…
Using the retained message flag in MQTT with Python
This script subscribes to an MQTT topic and prints the retained flag for each received message, demonstrating how to distinguish retained messages from normal ones.
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
print(f"Connected with result code {rc}")
# Subscribe to a topic and check retained flag
client.subscribe("test/retained")
print("Subscribed to test/retained")
def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
# msg.retain is the M…
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