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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)

Data migration

Data migration in Kafka cluster can be viewed in different aspects. You may want to migrate data to newly-added disk drives in the same cluster and then decommission old disks. You may want to move data to a secure cluster or to newly-added brokers and then decommission old brokers. You may want to move data to a different new cluster altogether or to the Cloud. Sometimes, you also end up migrating Zookeeper servers. In this section, we will, in general, discuss one of the scenarios mentioned earlier.

Let's consider the scenario where we want to add new hard drives/disks and decommission old ones on broker servers. Kafka data directories contain topic and partition data. You can always configure more than one data directory, and Kafka will balance the partition or topic data across these directory locations.

One important thing to note here is that Kafka does...