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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

Introduction to Confluent Platform

So far, we have walked through learning internal concepts. We also went through a few programs that helped us use Apache Kafka. Confluent Platform is developed by the creator of Kafka in order to improve usability of Kafka in production applications.

The following are a few reasons to introduce Confluent Platform:

  • Integration with Kafka: We have seen integration of Spark, Storm with Kafka in the previous chapter. However, these frameworks come with additional rich APIs, and having such Stream processing available in a single platform with Kafka will avoid maintaining other distributed execution engines separately.
  • In-built Connectors: We saw that writing a Kafka producer or consumer application is very easy using API that Kafka provides. We have seen in many application architectures where Kafka is being used, that the type of source of data...
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