Kafka in a nutshell
Apache Kafka is an open source streaming platform. If you are reading this book, maybe you already know that Kafka scales very well in a horizontal way without compromising speed and efficiency.
The Kafka core is written in Scala, and Kafka Streams and KSQL are written in Java. A Kafka server can run in several operating systems: Unix, Linux, macOS, and even Windows. As it usually runs in production on Linux servers, the examples in this book are designed to run on Linux environments. The examples in this book also consider bash environment usage.
This chapter explains how to install, configure, and run Kafka. As this is a Quick Start Guide, it does not cover Kafka's theoretical details. At the moment, it is appropriate ...
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