Quickstart

rtd.pub consists of

• An Excel add-in that provides the basis of the Excel integration. Only recent versions of Microsoft Excel running on Windows will be supported in the initial release.

• Data plugins that act as a bridge from any streaming data source to the add-in

• A process that hosts data plugins and interacts with the Excel add-in

In reality, all an end user sees is a new function called rtdpub.Sub that they can use to include streaming values in their workbooks.

Simple data plugins supporting NATS and Kafka are included.

You can bring your own plugins, which are easy to implement in any language. We provide SDKs for go, with Python coming shortly.

Get started in two minutes

• Install the add-in and built-in plugins by downloading and running the installer (download coming soon, contact us if interested in early access)

• Restart Excel and create a new workbook

• Add a formula to a cell: =rtdpub.Sub("counter", "test")

  • This means:

    • use the counter connector and pass it the parameter test

• Observe the magic of the cell saying "1", then a second later, "2" ... and so on.

• In another cell, add: =rtdpub.Sub("counter", "test2"). You now have two independent counters.

A counter (or two) is not that compelling but it does show the machinery working end to end. Follow on for more details, including how this plugin was implemented.