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From Zero to a Running Kafka Pipeline in 30 Minutes - Complete Guide

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How we Built a Real-Time Vehicle Intelligence Pipeline in 30 Minutes using Condense

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TL;DR

On June 10th, Bosch MPS and Zeliot showed how to build a real-time streaming pipeline live in under 30 minutes using Condense. It processed live vehicle data from multiple devices, deployed custom logic via GitOps, and sent alerts to dashboards and PostgreSQL, all inside the customer’s cloud (BYOC). The demo proved Condense makes real-time streaming simple, scalable, and fully observable without extra tools, perfect for vehicle intelligence and mobility platforms.

On June 10th, Bosch MPS and Zeliot showed how to build a real-time streaming pipeline live in under 30 minutes using Condense. It processed live vehicle data from multiple devices, deployed custom logic via GitOps, and sent alerts to dashboards and PostgreSQL, all inside the customer’s cloud (BYOC). The demo proved Condense makes real-time streaming simple, scalable, and fully observable without extra tools, perfect for vehicle intelligence and mobility platforms.

On June 10th, Bosch MPS and Zeliot teams delivered more than a webinar, we delivered a live production-grade streaming system, end-to-end, in real time. 

In just under 30 minutes, the Condense team built a fully operational data pipeline: ingesting from physical vehicle devices, applying custom and prebuilt stream logic, and routing alerts to live dashboards and structured storage. No mock data. No patchwork setup. Just live Kafka-powered execution. 

Watch the recording: Build a Data Pipeline Under 30 Minutes using Condense 🚀

What Makes This Different 

This wasn’t a tutorial or marketing demo. It was a working example of how real-time architectures should actually work

At the center was Condense, a vertically optimized, fully managed Kafka-native platform. But unlike traditional Kafka platforms, Condense brings in: 

  • BYOC Kafka: run in your own AWS, Azure, or GCP, retaining data sovereignty and leveraging cloud credits. The entire pipeline runs inside the customer's own cloud account using Condense's BYOC deployment vehicle data never leaves the enterprise's cloud boundary.

  • Protocol-aware device ingestion: connectors for iTriangle, Teltonika, Bosch MPS, and more. 

  • GitOps-native custom logic: deploy transforms with Docker, Git, and Kafka bindings from the UI. 

  • Built-in observability: topic health, lag, retries, transform traces, all without external tooling. 

  • Real-world mobility readiness: outputs to PostgreSQL, AquilaTrack, and other operational systems. 

End-to-end pipeline observability was live from the first event consumer lag, transform throughput, and sink delivery rates all visible without any external monitoring setup.

What Was Built, Live?

  • Ingested live data from a demo car fitted with an iTriangle device 

  • Added a Teltonika device to simulate multi-hardware ingestion 

  • Deployed a Panic Alert transform from GitLab using the built-in IDE 

  • Added a Periodic publisher for heartbeat events to AquilaTrack and PostgreSQL 

  • Forwarded alerts to AquilaTrack’s live dashboard via API 

  • Stored structured data in PostgreSQL tables for downstream analytics 

And finally, when the actual panic button was pressed in the vehicle, the system lit up: 

  • Kafka decoded the payload in real-time 

  • Custom transform flagged the alert 

  • PostgreSQL recorded it 

  • AquilaTrack showed the event live 

Why This Matters?

Vehicle data is transmitted via MQTT from telematics devices into Kafka topics where Condense's stream processing layer transforms raw telemetry into actionable intelligence. This webinar proved that real-time is not just about fast brokers, it’s about fast decisions

Condense redefines what streaming-first systems can be: 

  • Kafka without complexity 

  • Logic with CI/CD and Git control 

  • Device-to-dashboard observability built in 

  • Domain-ready connectors that eliminate months of plumbing 

It wasn’t a simulation. It was a system, running live, built transparently in front of an audience. 

Watch the Replay 

The same workflow pattern ingest, transform, alert, route can be applied to any real-time data source, not just vehicle telemetry. For anyone building connected mobility platforms, telematics systems, or vehicle intelligence workflows, this is worth watching. Not just for the product, but for the architecture, velocity, and clarity of execution. 

For a customer example of this same architecture powering a production fleet intelligence platform at scale, see how iTriangle telematics devices feed real-time fleet decisions. To Learn More, Visit this page: Zeliot x Bosch MPS

Frequently Asked Questions

A full data pipeline that ingested live vehicle data from an iTriangle device, added a Teltonika device, deployed a Panic Alert transform from GitLab, and routed alerts to an AquilaTrack dashboard and PostgreSQL. When the panic button was pressed, the system flagged the alert, logged it, and displayed it live.

This was a working, production-grade system, not mock data or a preconfigured lab. The pipeline ran end-to-end with live telemetry, custom logic, and real dashboards, showing how streaming should operate in practice.

Condense provided the fully managed, Kafka-native backbone with BYOC deployment, device-aware connectors, a built-in IDE for GitOps logic, and observability out of the box. It handled ingestion, transformation, alerting, and routing without extra tooling.

BYOC keeps all vehicle data inside the customer’s own AWS/Azure/GCP account, preserving data sovereignty and compliance. It also lets enterprises use their existing cloud credits instead of sending data to a vendor-hosted environment.

Yes. The same ingest → transform → alert → route pattern works for any real-time data source, from telematics to industrial IoT. The demo showed how quickly teams can go from live data to actionable decisions using Condense.

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