Apache Kafka Quick Start Guide

Process large volumes of data in real-time while building high performance and robust data stream processing pipeline using the latest Apache Kafka 2.0

Key Features

Solve practical large data and processing challenges with Kafka
Tackle data processing challenges like late events, windowing, and watermarking
Understand real-time streaming applications processing using Schema registry, Kafka connect, Kafka streams, and KSQL

Book DescriptionApache Kafka is a great open source platform for handling your real-time data pipeline to ensure high-speed filtering and pattern matching on the fly. In this book, you will learn how to use Apache Kafka for efficient processing of distributed applications and will get familiar with solving everyday problems in fast data and processing pipelines.

This book focuses on programming rather than the configuration management of Kafka clusters or DevOps. It starts off with the installation and setting up the development environment, before quickly moving on to performing fundamental messaging operations such as validation and enrichment.

Here you will learn about message composition with pure Kafka API and Kafka Streams. You will look into the transformation of messages in different formats, such asext, binary, XML, JSON, and AVRO. Next, you will learn how to expose the schemas contained in Kafka with the Schema Registry. You will then learn how to work with all relevant connectors with Kafka Connect. While working with Kafka Streams, you will perform various interesting operations on streams, such as windowing, joins, and aggregations. Finally, through KSQL, you will learn how to retrieve, insert, modify, and delete data streams, and how to manipulate watermarks and windows.

What you will learn

How to validate data with Kafka
Add information to existing data flows
Generate new information through message composition
Perform data validation and versioning with the Schema Registry
How to perform message Serialization and Deserialization
How to perform message Serialization and Deserialization
Process data streams with Kafka Streams
Understand the duality between tables and streams with KSQL

Who this book is forThis book is for developers who want to quickly master the practical concepts behind Apache Kafka. The audience need not have come across Apache Kafka previously; however, a familiarity of Java or any JVM language will be helpful in understanding the code in this book.

Author Biography

Raúl Estrada has been a programmer since 1996 and a Java developer since 2001. He loves all topics related to computer science. With more than 15 years of experience in high-availability and enterprise software, he has been designing and implementing architectures since 2003. His specialization is in systems integration, and he mainly participates in projects related to the financial sector. He has been an enterprise architect for BEA Systems and Oracle Inc., but he also enjoys web, mobile, and game programming. Raúl is a supporter of free software and enjoys experimenting with new technologies, frameworks, languages, and methods. Raúl is the author of other Packt Publishing titles, such as Fast Data Processing Systems with SMACK and Apache Kafka Cookbook.