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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)

Introduction to Spark 

Apache Spark is distributed in-memory data processing system. It provides rich set of API in Java, Scala, and Python. Spark API can be used to develop applications which can do batch and real-time data processing and analytics, machine learning, and graph processing of huge volumes of data on a single clustering platform.

Spark development was started in 2009 by a team at Berkeley's AMPLab for improving the performance of MapReduce framework.

MapReduce is another distributed batch processing framework developed by Yahoo in context to Google research paper.

What they found was that an application which involves an iterative approach to solving certain problems can be improvised by reducing disk I/O. Spark allows us to cache a large set of data in memory and applications which uses iterative approach of transformation can use benefit of caching to...