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Building Data Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka

You're reading from   Building Data Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka Design, develop and streamline applications using Apache Kafka, Storm, Heron and Spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787283985
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chanchal Singh Chanchal Singh
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Manish Kumar Manish Kumar
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Preface 1. Introduction to Messaging Systems FREE CHAPTER 2. Introducing Kafka the Distributed Messaging Platform 3. Deep Dive into Kafka Producers 4. Deep Dive into Kafka Consumers 5. Building Spark Streaming Applications with Kafka 6. Building Storm Applications with Kafka 7. Using Kafka with Confluent Platform 8. Building ETL Pipelines Using Kafka 9. Building Streaming Applications Using Kafka Streams 10. Kafka Cluster Deployment 11. Using Kafka in Big Data Applications 12. Securing Kafka 13. Streaming Application Design Considerations

Understanding Kafka Connect and Kafka Stream

Kafka Connect is a tool that provides the ability to move data into and out of the Kafka system. Thousands of use cases use the same kind of source and target system while using Kafka. Kafka Connect is comprised of Connectors for those common source or target systems.

Kafka Connect consists of a set of Connectors, and the Connectors are of two types:

  • Import Connectors: Import Connectors are used to bring data from the source system into Kafka topics. These Connectors accept configuration through property files and bring data into a Kafka topic in any way you wish. You don't need to write your own producer to do such jobs. A few of the popular Connectors are JDBC Connector, file Connector, and so on.
  • Export Connectors: Unlike Import Connectors, Export Connectors are used to copy data from Kafka topics to the target system. This...
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