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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)

Java CustomStreamsProcessor

Summing up what has happened so far, in previous chapters we saw how to make a producer, a consumer, and a simple processor in Kafka. We also saw how to do the same with a custom SerDe, how to use Avro, and the Schema Registry. So far in this chapter, we have seen how to make a simple processor with Kafka Streams.

In this section, we will use all our knowledge so far to build a CustomStreamsProcessor with Kafka Streams to use our own SerDe.


Now, in the src/main/java/kioto/custom directory, create a file called CustomStreamsProcessor.java with the contents of Listing 6.3, shown as follows:

import ...
public final class CustomStreamsProcessor {
private final String brokers;
public CustomStreamsProcessor(String brokers) {
super();
this.brokers = brokers;
}
public final void process() {
// below we will see the contents of this method
}
public...