August 2017
Beginner to intermediate
278 pages
6h 40m
English
We have seen Stream processing engines such as Apache Spark and Apache Storm in the previous chapters. These processing engines require separate installation and maintenance efforts. Kafka Streams is a tool to process and analyze data stored in Kafka topics. The Kafka Stream library is built based on popular Stream processing concepts that allow you to run your streaming application on the Kafka cluster itself.
We will look into the terminology used in Kafka Streams; however, a detailed walk-through of Kafka Stream is covered in the upcoming chapter. Kafka Streams has a few concepts similar to what we had in Apache Storm; they are listed as follows:
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