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11. Fraudulent Transaction ClassifierMedium

Core Transformations⏱️ ~15 mins

11. Fraudulent Transaction Classifier

Enterprise Architecture Context

In production stream-processing architectures (Google Cloud Dataflow / Flink), pipeline stages must handle parallel transformations without data loss, managing schema mutations and aggregations across distributed worker workers.

Problem Statement

### Business Context Real-time fraud prevention systems continuously monitor stream payloads to flag transactions exceeding safety limits from unverified origins. ### Problem Statement Write a function `filter_fraud(input_pcoll)` that filters transaction dictionaries, retaining records where: `amount > 5000` AND `status == 'unverified'`.

Key Learning Objectives

  • Understand distributed Apache Beam execution DAG stages and pipeline lifecycle.
  • Apply idiomatic functional Python transforms using the pipe operator |.
  • Ensure data consistency and idempotency across distributed stream workers.

Sample Data Fixtures

Sample Example 1
Input Stream:
[{id: 1, amount: 6000, unverified}, {id: 2, amount: 2000}]
Expected Output:
[1]
Sample Example 2
Input Stream:
[{id: 3, amount: 4000, verified}, {id: 4, amount: 7000, unverified}]
Expected Output:
[4]
Topics:#Filter#Conditionals
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