Apache Kafka Quick Start Guide

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The --topic parameter sets the name of the topic; in this case, amazingTopic."

A block of code is set as follows:

{   "event": "CUSTOMER_CONSULTS_ETHPRICE",   "customer": {         "id": "14862768",         "name": "Snowden, Edward",         "ipAddress": "95.31.18.111"   },   "currency": {         "name": "ethereum",         "price": "RUB"   },   "timestamp": "2018-09-28T09:09:09Z"}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

dependencies { compile group: ...