Kafka in Action is a practical, hands-on guide to building Kafka-based data pipelines. Filled with real-world use cases and scenarios, this book probes Kafka''s most common use cases, ranging from simple logging through managing streaming data systems for message routing, analytics, and more.
In systems that handle big data, streaming data, or fast data, it''s important to get your data pipelines right. Apache Kafka is a wicked-fast distributed streaming platform that operates as more than just a persistent log or a flexible message queue.
Key Features
- Understanding Kafka''s concepts
- Implementing Kafka as a message queue
- Setting up and executing basic ETL tasks
- Recording and consuming streaming data
- Working with Kafka producers and consumers from Java applications
- Using Kafka as part of a large data project team
- Performi
