Summary
In this chapter, you learned how MiNiFi provides a means by which you can stream data to a NiFi instance. With MiNiFi, you can capture data from sensors, smaller devices such as a Raspberry Pi, or on regular servers where the data lives, without needing a full NiFi install. You learned how to set up and configure a remote processor group that allows you to talk to a remote NiFi instance.
In the Appendix, you will learn how you can cluster NiFi to run your data pipelines on different machines so that you can further distribute the load. This will allow you to reserve servers for specific tasks, or to spread large amounts of data horizontally across the cluster. By combining NiFi, Kafka, and Spark into clusters, you will be able to process more data than any single machine.
