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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)

Deep dive into Kafka Connect

Let's get into the architecture of Kafka Connect. The following figure gives a good idea of Kafka Connect:

Kafka Connect architecture

Kafka Connect has three major models in its design:

  • Connector: A Connector is configured by defining the Connector class and configuration. The Connector class is defined based on the source or target of the data, which means that it will be different for the Database source and File source. It is then followed by setting up the configuration for these classes. For example, configuration for the Database source could be the IP of the database, the username and password to connect to the database, and so on. The Connector creates a set of tasks, which is actually responsible for copying data from the source or copying data to the target. Connectors are of two types:
    • Source Connector: This is responsible for ingesting...