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Apache Kafka for Real-Time Events and Data Ingestion
Real-time data and event streaming are crucial components of modern data architectures. By leveraging systems such as Apache Kafka, organizations can ingest, process, and analyze real-time data to drive timely business decisions and actions.
In this chapter, we will cover Kafka’s fundamental concepts and architecture that enable it to be a performant, resilient, and scalable messaging system. You will learn how Kafka’s publish-subscribe messaging model works with topics, partitions, and brokers. We will demonstrate Kafka setup and configuration, and you will get hands-on experience with producing and consuming messages for topics.
Additionally, you will understand Kafka’s distributed and ...
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