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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 ETL Pipelines Using Kafka

In the previous chapter, we learned about Confluent Platform. We covered its architecture in detail and discussed its components. You also learned how to export data from Kafka to HDFS using different tools. We went through Camus, Goblin, Flume, and Kafka Connect to cover different ways of bringing data to HDFS. We also recommend you try all the tools discussed in the last chapter to understand how they work. Now we will look into creating an ETL pipeline using these tools and look more closely at Kafka Connect use cases and examples.

In this chapter, we will cover Kafka Connect in detail. The following are the topics we will cover:

  • Use of Kafka in the ETL pipeline
  • Introduction to Kafka Connect
  • Kafka Connect architecture
  • Deep dive into Kafka Connect
  • Introductory example of Kafka Connect
  • Common use cases
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