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Apache Kafka Quick Start Guide

By : Raúl Estrada
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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)

Kioto, a Kafka IoT company

Kioto is a fictional company dedicated to energy production and distribution. To operate, Kioto has several Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Kioto also wants to build an enterprise service bus with Apache Kafka. Its goal is to manage all of the messages received by all of the machines' IoT sensors every minute. Kioto has hundreds of machines in several locations, sending thousands of different messages per minute to the enterprise service bus.

As mentioned, Kioto has a lot of IoT on its machines that continuously send status messages to a control center. These machines generate electricity, so it is very important for Kioto to know exactly the machines' uptime and their state (running, shutting down, shutdown, starting, and so on).

Kioto also needs to know the weather forecast, because some machines should not operate over certain temperatures...