Chapter 8. Study Case 2 - Connectors
In this chapter, we analyze the Connectors, that is, the software pieces that enable SMACK stack technologies to communicate with each other. The relationship between Spark and Kafka, was covered in the Kafka chapter, and we also dealt with the relationship between Spark and Cassandra in the previous study case in Chapter 7, Study Case 1 - Spark and Cassandra.
This chapter has the following sections, along with the remaining relationships:
- Akka and Cassandra
- Akka and Spark
- Kafka and Akka
- Kafka and Cassandra
Akka and Cassandra
For this example, we will use the DataStax Cassandra driver and Akka to build an application that downloads tweets and then stores their ID, text, name, and date in a Cassandra table. Here we ...
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