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Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform designed for real-time data pipelines and applications, emphasizing high throughput and fault tolerance. Key components include producers, consumers, brokers, and topics, with various APIs for message handling and integration. Common use cases involve log aggregation, real-time analytics, and ETL pipelines, with best practices focusing on scaling and monitoring.

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Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform designed for real-time data pipelines and applications, emphasizing high throughput and fault tolerance. Key components include producers, consumers, brokers, and topics, with various APIs for message handling and integration. Common use cases involve log aggregation, real-time analytics, and ETL pipelines, with best practices focusing on scaling and monitoring.

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Beginner-Friendly Guide to Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka - Complete Beginner Documentation

What is Apache Kafka?

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used for building real-time data

pipelines and streaming applications. It's like a messaging system but designed for high throughput,

scalability, and fault tolerance.

Key Concepts

1. Producer

A producer sends (publishes) data (called "messages") into Kafka topics.

2. Consumer

A consumer reads (subscribes to) data from Kafka topics.

3. Broker

A Kafka broker is a server that stores and serves Kafka messages.

4. Topic

A topic is a named channel to which data is sent.

5. Partition

Each topic is split into partitions to enable parallelism and scalability.

6. Offset
Beginner-Friendly Guide to Apache Kafka

An offset is a unique ID assigned to each message within a partition.

7. Consumer Group

A group of consumers that coordinate to read from a topic together.

Kafka Workflow (Simple Example)

1. A producer sends messages to a topic (e.g., user_activity).

2. The Kafka broker stores them in partitions.

3. A consumer or consumer group subscribes to the topic.

4. Kafka sends messages from the topic's partitions to the consumer(s).

Core Components

- Kafka Broker: Handles message storage and retrieval.

- Zookeeper: Manages the Kafka cluster (optional in newer versions).

- Kafka Producer: Sends data to Kafka topics.

- Kafka Consumer: Reads data from Kafka topics.

- Kafka Connect: Integrates Kafka with external systems.

- Kafka Streams: Allows real-time data stream processing.

Kafka Use Cases

- Log Aggregation

- Real-time Analytics

- Event Sourcing

- Messaging

- ETL Pipelines
Beginner-Friendly Guide to Apache Kafka

Kafka APIs

- Producer API: Sends messages to Kafka.

- Consumer API: Reads messages from Kafka.

- Streams API: Processes real-time data.

- Connect API: Integrates with external systems.

- Admin API: Manages topics and the cluster.

How to Use Kafka

1. Install Kafka.

2. Start Kafka and Zookeeper.

3. Create a Topic.

4. Send Messages.

5. Read Messages.

Kafka Security (Basics)

- Authentication

- Authorization

- Encryption

Kafka Best Practices

- Use partitions for scaling.

- Monitor broker health.

- Use consumer groups for fault tolerance.

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