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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)

Building Storm Applications with Kafka

In the previous chapter, we learned about Apache Spark, a near real-time processing engine which can process data in micro batches. But when it comes to very low latency applications, where seconds of delay may cause big trouble, Spark may not be a good fit for you. You would need a framework which can handle millions of records per second and you would want to process record by record, instead of processing in batches, for lower latency. In this chapter, we will learn about the real-time processing engine, Apache Storm. Storm was first designed and developed by Twitter, which later became an open source Apache project.

In this chapter, we will learn about:

  • Introduction to Apache Storm
  • Apache Storm architecture
  • Brief overview of Apache Heron
  • Integrating Apache Storm with Apache Kafka (Java/Scala example)
  • Use case (log processing)
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