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Building Data Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka

By : Chanchal Singh, Manish Kumar
Book Image

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)

Deep driving into Confluent architecture

In this section, we will discuss the architecture of Confluent Platform and its components in detail. The Confluent Platform provides you with underlying built-in Connectors and components that help you focus on the business use case and how to get value out of it. It takes care of the integration of data from multiple sources and its consumption by the target system. The Confluent Platform provides a trusted way of securing, monitoring, and managing the entire Kafka cluster infrastructure. Let's talk about its components one-by-one.

The following image will give a concise idea of the Confluent architecture:

Confluent architecture

In the preceding figure, we can see the three colored components. The dark and light blue represent the enterprise and open source version of the Confluent Platform respectively. Simply put, there are two...