Challenge: Leverage Managed I/O

Justification

Managed I/O enables Dataflow to manage specific I/O connectors used in Apache Beam pipelines. Managed I/O simplifies the management of pipelines that integrate with supported sources and sinks, often improving performance and scalability.

Objective

Build an Apache Beam data pipeline that leverages Managed I/O to integrate with one or more of the following sources and sinks: Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka, BigQuery.

Things to consider

• Understand the benefits and configurations of Managed I/O connectors.
• Implement reads from and/or writes to the chosen sources/sinks.
• Ensure proper authentication and authorization for accessing the services.

Expected result

One or more running Apache Beam pipelines that successfully use Managed I/O APIs. This can be demonstrated by running the pipeline(s) locally (e.g., using the Direct Runner in a Colab environment) to read from and/or write data to Iceberg, Kafka, or BigQuery sources/sinks. If applicable and resources allow, these pipelines could also be run on Dataflow.