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Hands-On Guide to Building Robust and Scalable Event-Driven Applications with Apache Kafka

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What is Apache Kafka?

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that enables you to build real-time, event-driven applications. With Kafka, you can collect, process, and store large amounts of data in a scalable and fault-tolerant manner.

Why use Apache Kafka?

There are many reasons to use Apache Kafka for building event-driven applications. Some of the benefits of using Kafka include:

Scalability: Kafka is a highly scalable platform that can handle large amounts of data.
Fault tolerance: Kafka is a fault-tolerant platform that can continue to operate even if one or more servers fail.
Real-time processing: Kafka processes data in real time, making it ideal for applications that need to respond to events immediately.
Event-driven architecture: Kafka uses events to trigger actions, making it easy to build applications that are reactive to changes in data.

Getting started with Apache Kafka

To get started with Apache Kafka, you will need to install the Kafka software on your computer. You can download the Kafka software from the Apache Kafka website.

Effective Kafka: A Hands-On Guide to Building Robust and Scalable Event-Driven Applications with Code Examples in Java

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Once you have installed Kafka, you will need to create a Kafka cluster. A Kafka cluster is a group of servers that work together to store and process data. You can create a Kafka cluster using the Kafka command-line tools.

Once you have created a Kafka cluster, you can start producing and consuming data. You can use the Kafka producer and consumer APIs to send and receive data from Kafka topics.

Building an event-driven application with Apache Kafka

Once you have a basic understanding of Kafka, you can start building event-driven applications. Event-driven applications are applications that use events to trigger actions. Kafka is an ideal platform for building event-driven applications because it provides a reliable and scalable way to collect, process, and store events.

To build an event-driven application with Kafka, you will need to:

Identify the events that you want to track.
Create a Kafka topic for each event type.
Develop a producer application to send events to the Kafka topics.
Develop a consumer application to consume events from the Kafka topics.
Define the actions that you want to take when events are received.

Apache Kafka is a powerful platform for building robust and scalable event-driven applications. In this guide, you learned the basics of Kafka and how to use it to build an event-driven application. By following the steps in this guide, you can start building your own event-driven applications with Kafka today.

Effective Kafka: A Hands-On Guide to Building Robust and Scalable Event-Driven Applications with Code Examples in Java

by Emil Koutanov

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