In the last chapter, we learned about Apache Storm and Apache Heron. We also went through Integrating Kafka with Storm. In this chapter, we will focus on Confluent Platform, which is specially designed to make Kafka more efficient to use in production application.
We will walk through the following topics in this chapter:
- Introduction to Confluent Platform
- Confluent architecture
- Kafka Connectors and Kafka Streams
- Schema Registry and REST proxy
- Camus - moving Kafka data to HDFS