Character encoding
Character Encoding is the means of encoding character data (i.e. text) into binary form. Therefore to decode character data from a stream of bytes, the character encoding must be known (or guessed).
Common examples of character encodings are ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16.
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Feed
Feed
A Feed is a means of organising and categorising data in Stroom. A Feed contains multiple Streams of data that have been ingested into Stroom or output by a Pipeline. Typically a Feed will contain Streams of data that are all from one system and have a common data format.
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context
Context data
This is an additional stream of contextual data that is sent along side the main event stream. It provides a means for the sending system to send additional data that relates only to the event stream it is sent alongside.
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This allows Stroom to decode the data sent into that Feed.