Data Lake for Enterprises

Context in Data Lake - messaging layer

In this chapter, we are dealing with a technology which constitutes one of the core layers of Data Lake namely, the messaging layer. Its crucial to have a fully functional messaging layer for dealing with a real-time data stream flowing in from different applications in an enterprise.

The technology that we have shortlisted to do this very important job of handling such, stream data is Apache Kafka. This chapter will take you through the functioning of messaging layer and then deep dive into the technology, Kafka.