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JavaScript and JSON Essentials

You're reading from   JavaScript and JSON Essentials Build light weight, scalable, and faster web applications with the power of JSON

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788624701
Length 226 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sai S Sriparasa Sai S Sriparasa
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Bruno Joseph D'mello Bruno Joseph D'mello
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with JSON 2. The JSON Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. AJAX Requests with JSON 4. Cross-Domain Asynchronous Requests 5. Debugging JSON 6. Building the Carousel Application 7. Alternate Implementations of JSON 8. Introduction to hapi.js 9. Storing JSON Documents in MongoDB 10. Configuring the Task Runner Using JSON 11. JSON for Real-Time and Distributed Data 12. Case Studies in JSON 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using JSON with Apache Kafka


Distributed systems are the logical systems that are segregated over a network. Leveraging the power of a distributed system normally starts in the stage where the application wants to scale horizontally over a network and when the flow of data is increasing over time. Let's refer to the flow of data as streams.

Kafka is a distributed stream processing platform that acts as a broker to producers and consumers of streams. In the world of Kafka, a producer is any entity that provides data, and a consumer is any entity that receives data.

Such a platform is really useful in various fields, such as stock markets and geo-spatial applications, where data is continuously produced and consumed.

We are going to study Apache Kafka by communicating JSON data via the simple real-time application that we implemented before. To do so, we need to learn a few more keywords from the following simple block diagram:

The preceding block diagram shows the basic streams in Kafka. The...

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