Kafka 2.0 Expert Guide: Producing, Consuming and Processing Messages and Events
A guide to producing, consuming and processing events. Kafka 2.0 was recently released and I thought it would be a good time to review the basics of using Kafka. My goal is to focus on producing, consuming and processing messages or events. This book will therefore cover how to use Kafka’s producer and consumer API, as well as higher level APIs: Kafka Streams, Spark Structured Streaming, and KSQL
Author : Alexis SEIGNEURIN - Data Engineer
In his 15+ year career as a Software Engineer, Alexis has explored many aspects of Data Management using a wide range of languages, frameworks, systems, and databases. He has worked extensively with Spark, Kafka, and AWS technologies, and also contributed to Data Science projects.
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