Creating a Broadway Producer for Twitter Stream API in Elixir

Philip Sampaio provides a comprehensive guide to building a custom producer for Broadway that connects to the Twitter stream API using Elixir. He starts by explaining the basics of Broadway and its use for data processing pipelines. Sampaio then walks through the steps of creating a producer that can handle the continuous stream of tweets, from setting up the Twitter API endpoint to managing the back-pressure between producers and consumers within a Broadway topology. The guide details writing custom GenStage producers, handling demand, and testing the setup with supervision trees in an Elixir application. The article concludes with examples and tips on effectively consuming and processing the streamed tweets.