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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)

Summary

This concludes our section on Kafka producers. This chapter addresses one of the key functionalities of Kafka message flows. The major emphasis in this chapter was for you to understand how Kafka producers work at the logical level and how messages are passed from Kafka producers to Kafka queues. This was covered in the Kafka Internals section. This is an important section for you to understand before you learn how to code with Kafka APIs. Unless you understand the logical working of Kafka producers, you will not be able to do justice to producer application technical designing.

We discussed Kafka Producer APIs and different components around it such as custom practitioners. We gave both Java and Scala examples as both languages are heavily used in enterprise applications. We would suggest you try all those examples on your consoles and get a better grasp of how Kafka...