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+# Getting Started with Spring Cloud Data Flow
+A Spring Cloud Data Flow workshop on Kubernetes. 
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+1. The workshop is primarily geared towards the students who attend the [SCDF workshop at SpringOne 2020](https://springone.io/2020/workshops/spring-cloud-data-flow).
+2. Students will use the [Strigo](https://strigo.io/) platform to learn how to prepare the environment and exercise SCDF's feature capabilities on Kubernetes.
+3. Instructions: [![HackMD documents](https://hackmd.io/badge.svg)](https://hackmd.io/MYhmNBEoRvOKW57_W49z2g)
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+## Applications
+1. [`trucks`](https://github.com/sabbyanandan/SpringOne2020/tree/master/thumbinator) — generates truck data in random interval
+2. [`brake-temperture`](https://github.com/sabbyanandan/SpringOne2020/tree/master/brake-temperature) — computes moving average of truck's brake temperature in 10s interval
+3. [`brake-logs`](https://github.com/sabbyanandan/SpringOne2020/tree/master/brake-logs) — logs the computed moving-average in real-time
+4. [`thumbinator`](https://github.com/sabbyanandan/SpringOne2020/tree/master/thumbinator) — a task/batch-job that creates thumbnails from images
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