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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 Kafka Streams

The data processing strategy has evolved over time, and it's still being used in different ways. The following are the important terms related to Kafka Streams:

  • Request/response: In this type of processing, you send a single request. This is sent as request data, and the server processes it and returns the response data as a result. You may take the example of REST servers, where processing is done on request and the response is sent to the client after processing. Processing may involve filtering, cleansing, aggregation, or lookup operations. Scaling such a processing engine requires adding more services in order to handle the increase in traffic.
  • Batch processing: This is a process where you send a bounded set of input data in batches, and the processing engine sends the response in batches after processing. In batch processing, data is already...