VMs are not optimal.   Run microservices in Kafka Connect, NiFi Stateless, Flink, Spark or Python in CML, Jupyter Notebooks. SQL Stream builder.   all good options ... View more

Hello   Once example is to use Kafka Streams https://blog.cloudera.com/building-secure-and-governed-microservices-with-kafka-streams/ ... View more

@MAB,   If these are internal users then you can give them access to HUE (comes bundled with CDH and CDP) and they can do file exchange and much more.   If these are external users and you indeed want to create a separate portal for the data exchange, you can check the WebHDFS REST API.   Thanks, Megh ... View more