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This guide provides essential information for mastering Apache Kafka, focusing on its core elements to build a strong understanding for data engineering roles. It includes examples of Kafka's applications in real-time data processing, message delivery guarantees, and practical commands for managing topics and messages. Additionally, it highlights the importance of partitions and consumer groups for scalability and throughput in data processing.

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Kafka

This guide provides essential information for mastering Apache Kafka, focusing on its core elements to build a strong understanding for data engineering roles. It includes examples of Kafka's applications in real-time data processing, message delivery guarantees, and practical commands for managing topics and messages. Additionally, it highlights the importance of partitions and consumer groups for scalability and throughput in data processing.

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The Ultimate Guide to become a Data Engineer


*Disclaimer*

Everyone has their own way of learning. The key

is focusing on the core elements of Apache kafka

to build a strong understanding.

This guide is designed to assist you in that

journey.

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Example: Streaming live click data from a website to a database for

analytics.

Example: A retail company can use Kafka to track live sales and

update demand forecasting models in real-time.

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At Most Once: Messages may be lost but are not re-delivered.

Example: Logging events where occasional loss is acceptable.


At Least Once: Messages are never lost but may be re-
delivered.

Example: Payment processing to ensure no transaction is missed.

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Exactly Once: Messages are delivered once without duplicates.

Example: Updating an inventory system to prevent overstocking.

Example: bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/


zookeeper.properties and bin/kafka-server-start.sh
config/server.properties.

Create a topic: bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --topic


test-topic --bootstrap-server localhost:9092.
Example: Start a topic for a live news feed.

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Produce messages: bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --

topic test-topic --bootstrap-server localhost:9092.

Consume messages: bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --

topic test-topic --from-beginning --bootstrap-

server localhost:9092.

Example: bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/

zookeeper.properties and bin/kafka-server-start.sh

config/server.properties.

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Example: Analyzing streaming social media data to detect trending

topics.

Example: Collecting user activity data from a website for predictive

analysis.

Example: In a financial system, Kafka can process millions of stock

trades per second.

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Example: Ensuring no transaction logs are lost in a banking system

Example: Use a JDBC connector to stream database changes to

Kafka.

Example: Counting the number of orders per product category in real-

time.

Example: Use Schema Registry to validate incoming messages for a

customer database.

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Example: Assign partitions based on geographical regions for a global

application.

Example: Retry producing a message if the broker is temporarily

unavailable.

Example: Increase partition count to improve throughput in a high-

traffic applicatio

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Example: A sports app uses Kafka to show live match statistics.

Example: Retry producing a message if the broker is temporarily

unavailable.

Example: Monitoring vibration data from machinery to forecast

breakdowns.

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Answer: Apache Kafka is a distributed event-streaming platform

designed for high-throughput, fault-tolerant message processing.

Unlike traditional brokers, Kafka offers persistence, scalability,

and support for real-time and batch data

Answer: Partitions allow Kafka topics to be split into multiple

segments. They enable parallelism by allowing different

consumers to process data simultaneously, improving

throughput.

Answer: Consumer groups enable multiple consumers to share

the load of processing messages from a topic, ensuring high

availability and scalability.

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Answer: Message reprocessing can be achieved by resetting

consumer offsets to a desired position, allowing consumers to

replay messages.

Answer: Kafka Streams is a lightweight library for processing

Kafka data in real time, while Spark Streaming is a broader

framework for distributed data processing.

Answer: Kafka persists messages on disk and replicates them

across brokers, ensuring durability even in the event of failures

Answer: Strategies include increasing partitions, batching

messages, compressing data, and tuning broker configurations.

Answer: Producers send messages to Kafka topics, while

consumers read messages from topics for processing.

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Answer: Kafka handles backpressure by allowing consumers to

control their processing rate, with offsets ensuring no data loss.

Answer: Challenges include maintaining data consistency,

managing increased partition counts, and ensuring low latency.

Address them by balancing partitions across brokers, monitoring

metrics, and optimizing configurations.

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