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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)

An overview of securing Kafka

Kafka is used as a centralized event data store, receiving data from various sources, such as micro services and databases.

In any enterprise deployment of Kafka, security should be looked at from five paradigms. They are as follows:

  • Authentication: This establishes who the client(producer or consumer) is that trying to use Kafka services. Kafka has support for the Kerberos authentication mechanism.
  • Authorization: This establishes what kind of permission the client (producer or consumer) has on topics. Kafka has support for ACLs for authorization. Apache tools, such as Ranger, can also be used for Kafka authorization.
  • Wire encryption: This ensures that any sensitive data traveling over the network is encrypted and not in plain text. Kafka has support for SSL communication between the client (producer or consumer) and the broker. Even inter-broker...