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Apache Kafka Quick Start Guide

By : Raúl Estrada
Book Image

Apache Kafka Quick Start Guide

By: Raúl Estrada

Overview of this book

Apache Kafka is a great open source platform for handling your real-time data pipeline to ensure high-speed filtering and pattern matching on the ?y. In this book, you will learn how to use Apache Kafka for efficient processing of distributed applications and will get familiar with solving everyday problems in fast data and processing pipelines. This book focuses on programming rather than the configuration management of Kafka clusters or DevOps. It starts off with the installation and setting up the development environment, before quickly moving on to performing fundamental messaging operations such as validation and enrichment. Here you will learn about message composition with pure Kafka API and Kafka Streams. You will look into the transformation of messages in different formats, such asext, binary, XML, JSON, and AVRO. Next, you will learn how to expose the schemas contained in Kafka with the Schema Registry. You will then learn how to work with all relevant connectors with Kafka Connect. While working with Kafka Streams, you will perform various interesting operations on streams, such as windowing, joins, and aggregations. Finally, through KSQL, you will learn how to retrieve, insert, modify, and delete data streams, and how to manipulate watermarks and windows.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Running Confluent Platform

Go to the Confluent Platform installation directory (/usr/local/kafka/ for macOS users and /opt/kafka/ for Linux users) and type the following:

> cd /usr/local/confluent-5.0.0

To start Confluent Platform, run the following:

> bin/confluent start

This command-line interface is intended for development only, not for production:

https://docs.confluent.io/current/cli/index.html

The output is similar to what is shown in the following code snippet:

Using CONFLUENT_CURRENT: /var/folders/nc/4jrpd1w5563crr_np997zp980000gn/T/confluent.q3uxpyAt

Starting zookeeper
zookeeper is [UP]
Starting kafka
kafka is [UP]
Starting schema-registry
schema-registry is [UP]
Starting kafka-rest
kafka-rest is [UP]
Starting connect
connect is [UP]
Starting ksql-server
ksql-server is [UP]
Starting control-center
control-center is [UP]

As indicated by the command output, Confluent Platform automatically starts in this order: Zookeeper, Kafka, Schema Registry, REST proxy, Kafka Connect, KSQL, and the Confluent Control Center.

To access the Confluent Control Center running in your local, go to http://localhost:9021, as shown in Figure 1.5:

Figure 1.5: Confluent Control Center main page

There are other commands for Confluent Platform.

To get the status of all services or the status of a specific service along with its dependencies, enter the following:

> bin/confluent status

To stop all services or a specific service along with the services depending on it, enter the following:

> bin/confluent stop

To delete the data and logs of the current Confluent Platform, type the following:

> bin/confluent destroy