Summary
In this chapter, you learned how to create a Kafka cluster, which required the creation of a ZooKeeper cluster. While you ran all of the instances on a single machine, the steps you took will work on different servers too. Kafka allows the creation of real-time data streams and will require a different way of thinking than the batch processing you have been doing.
The next chapter will explain the concepts involved in streams in depth. You will also learn how to process streams in both NiFi and Python.