The Fundamentals course is intended for users with no or limited experience of the Crosser solution. You can follow this course using any Crosser account, including free-trials. This is an on-demand course and you complete it at your own pace.

Course outline

• The Crosser Streaming Analytics solution

• The Crosser module library

• Designing, testing and deploying processing flows

• Hands-on exercises covering basic use cases

• Installing a local edge node

If you complete the course, including the examination exercise you will receive a diploma.

Expected time to complete this course is ~20 hours.

Course material

The course is divided into six sessions, each with a presentation and introduction to exercises. The slides used in these presentations are added as attachments to this document and video recordings are presented below.

Session 1: Introduction (50:21)

Agenda

• Crosser Solution Concepts

• Flow-based processing

• Understanding Messages

Video recording of the presentation can be found here.

Session 2: First Flow (1:00:59)

Agenda

• UI introduction

• Flows

• The Flow Studio

• Module settings

• Testing and Deploying Flows

• Other functions

• Message filtering

• Managing Flows

• Modules covered:

• Data Generator module

• Aggregate module

• Text Template module

• MQTT Pub Client module

• Exercise 1: Build your first flow – step by step

Video recording of the presentation can be found here.

Session 3: Streaming data inputs (28:16)

Agenda

• Re-format messages

• Property Mapper module

• External streaming inputs (push)

• MQTT Client Sub module

• Multi-path flows

• Split module

• Math operations

• Math module

• Exercise 2: Process streaming data

Video recording of the presentation can be found here.

Session 4: Arrays (21:59)

Agenda

• Trigger modules

• Array modules

• Exercise 3: Processing array data

Video recording of the presentation can be found here.

Session 5: Non-streaming data, installing a local Node (19:55)

Agenda

• Exercise 4: Non-streaming data

• Interval module

• HTTP Request module

• HTTP Listener module

• Local Nodes

• Data directory

• Dashboard

• Local Node UI

• Exercise 5: Local Crosser Node

• Installation

• Deploy a flow

• Flow versions

Video recording of the presentation can be found here.

Session 6: Files and Exam! (23:50)

Agenda

• Administration

• Users

• Roles & Permissions

• Authenticating users using external authentication services

• Working with files

• CSV Reader module

• File TextReader module

• File TextWriter module

• File StreamWriter module

• Additional file related modules

• Exercise 6: Working with files

• Exam!

Video recording of the presentation can be found here.