MLOPS/docker-compose/transactions.md

Transactions Topic Documentation

This document provides an overview of the transactions topic in the Redpanda cluster. The topic is designed to capture autogenerated transaction events with various attributes.

Schema Overview

Each message in the transactions topic adheres to the following JSON schema:

{
    "email": "string",
    "index": "integer",
    "price": "string",
    "product_url": "string",
    "timestamp": "string",
    "user_id": "integer"
}

• email: The email address of the user involved in the transaction.
• index: A numeric index associated with the transaction. This could represent the position or order of the transaction in a sequence.
• price: A string representing the price of the product. It includes a currency code (e.g., "XXX") followed by the amount.
• product_url: A URL that points to the product involved in the transaction.
• timestamp: The timestamp of when the transaction occurred, formatted in ISO 8601.
• user_id: A numeric identifier for the user. This is typically a unique ID assigned to each user in the system.

Example message

{
    "email": "wzieme@ykczius.edu",
    "index": 0,
    "price": "XXX 5651308.100000",
    "product_url": "http://yjomdta.top/DxvGsCn.php",
    "timestamp": "2024-08-16T15:51:19.799474084Z",
    "user_id": 1
}

Use cases

You can use the transactions topic for various purposes, including:

• Analytics: Tracking and analyzing user transactions to understand buying behavior, popular products, etc.
• Monitoring: Observing transaction patterns to detect anomalies, such as unusual spikes or drops in transaction volume.
• Data Processing: Feeding transaction data into other systems, such as a data warehouse or real-time processing pipelines, for further processing and analysis.