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Mastering Spring Cloud
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Mastering Spring Cloud

by Piotr Mińkowski
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Apache Kafka

I have mentioned Apache Kafka a couple of times when discussing Spring Cloud integration with message brokers. However, until now, we haven't run any samples based on that platform. The fact is that RabbitMQ tends to be the preferred choice when working with Spring Cloud projects, but Kafka is also worthy of our attention. One of its advantages over RabbitMQ is native support for partitioning, which is one of the most important features of Spring Cloud Stream.

Kafka is not a typical message broker. It is rather a distributed streaming platform. Its main feature is to allow you to publish and subscribe to streams of records. It is especially useful for real-time streaming applications that transform or react to streams of ...

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