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# What is the RTDIP SDK?

​​**Real Time Data Ingestion Platform (RTDIP) SDK** is a python software development kit built to provide users, data scientists and developers with the ability to interact with components of the Real Time Data Ingestion Platform, including:

- Building, Executing and Deploying Ingestion Pipelines
- Execution of queries on RTDIP data
- Authentication to securely interact with environments and data

See [RTDIP Documentation](https://www.rtdip.io/) for more information on how to use the SDK.

# Licensing

Distributed under the Apache 2.0 License. See [LICENSE.md](https://github.com/rtdip/core/blob/develop/LICENSE.md) for more information.

# Need help?
* For reference documentation, pre-requisites, getting started, tutorials and examples visit [RTDIP Documentation](https://www.rtdip.io/). 
* File an issue via [Github Issues](https://github.com/rtdip/core/issues).
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# Community
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