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Building Data Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka

By : Chanchal Singh, Manish Kumar
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Building Data Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka

By: Chanchal Singh, Manish Kumar

Overview of this book

Apache Kafka is a popular distributed streaming platform that acts as a messaging queue or an enterprise messaging system. It lets you publish and subscribe to a stream of records, and process them in a fault-tolerant way as they occur. This book is a comprehensive guide to designing and architecting enterprise-grade streaming applications using Apache Kafka and other big data tools. It includes best practices for building such applications, and tackles some common challenges such as how to use Kafka efficiently and handle high data volumes with ease. This book first takes you through understanding the type messaging system and then provides a thorough introduction to Apache Kafka and its internal details. The second part of the book takes you through designing streaming application using various frameworks and tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Storm, and more. Once you grasp the basics, we will take you through more advanced concepts in Apache Kafka such as capacity planning and security. By the end of this book, you will have all the information you need to be comfortable with using Apache Kafka, and to design efficient streaming data applications with it.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Single cluster deployment

This section will give you an overview of what Kafka cluster would look like in a single data center. In a single cluster deployment, all your clients would connect to one data center, and read/write would happen from the same cluster. You would have multiple brokers and Zookeeper servers deployed to serve the requests. All those brokers and Zookeepers would be in the same data center within the same network subnet.

The following diagram represents what single cluster deployments would look like:

In the preceding diagram, Kafka is deployed in Data Center 1. Just like any other single Kafka cluster deployment, there are internal clients (Application 1 and Application 2), remote clients in different Data Centers (Application 3 and Application 4), and direct remote clients in the form of mobile applications.

As you can clearly see, this kind of setup has...