• Bitcoin Monitor
  • Run Data Pipeline
    • Run on codespaces
    • Run locally
  • Architecture

Bitcoin Monitor

This is an ETL pipeline to pull bitcoin exchange data from CoinCap API and load it into our data warehouse. For more details check out the blog at https://startdataengineering.com/post/data-engineering-project-to-impress-hiring-managers/

Run Data Pipeline

Code available at bitcoinMonitor repository.

Run on codespaces

You can run this data pipeline using GitHub codespaces. Follow the instructions below.

1. Create codespaces by going to the bitcoinMonitor repository, forking it and then clicking on Create codespaces on main button.
2. Wait for codespaces to start, then in the terminal type make up.
3. Wait for make up to complete, and then wait for 30s (give Metabase sometime to setup).
4. After 30s go to the ports tab and click on the link exposing port 3000 to access Metabase UI (username and password is sdeuser and sdepassword1234 respectively). See metabase connection settings screenshot below for connection details.

Note: The screenshots show how to run a project on codespaces, please make sure to use the instructions above for this specific project.

Metabase connection settings:

The metabase UI will look like the following

Note Make sure to switch off codespaces instance, you only have limited free usage; see docs here.

Run locally

To run locally, you need:

1. git
2. Github account
3. Docker with at least 4GB of RAM and Docker Compose v1.27.0 or later

Clone the repo and run the following commands to start the data pipeline:

git clone https://github.com/josephmachado/bitcoinMonitor.git
cd bitcoinMonitor
make up
sleep 30 # wait for Metabase to start
make ci # run checks and tests

Go to 3000">http3000 to see the Metabase UI.

Architecture

We use python to pull, transform and load data. Our warehouse is postgres. We also spin up a Metabase instance for our presentation layer.

All of the components are running as docker containers.

Read this post, for information on setting up CI/CD, IAC(terraform), “make” commands and automated testing.