This blog post discusses how to build a data pipeline using Kafka, Faust, and InfluxDB. It provides an overview of Kafka and Faust, demonstrates how to use the Telegraf Kafka Consumer Input Plugin to read data from a Kafka topic and write it to InfluxDB, and shares an example pipeline that ties everything together. The post also touches on using InfluxDB for real-time monitoring in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and highlights how traditional modeling techniques can be sufficient without resorting to machine learning or deep learning solutions.