Introduction Apache Kafka is a scalable, high performance, low latency platform that allows reading and writing streams of data like a messaging system. We can start writing Kafka applications using Java fairly easily, check our previous article on how to design a Kafka pipeline in Java. If you research the variety of real-world use-cases for Kafka, you will very […]

Introduction This Article is about Programming Apache Kafka producer and consumer using Java language, as we’ll see, using Java we’ll be able to reproduce what the CLI does and even more. Prerequisites Kafka Installation and configuration article ( To setup cluster will be used in this article) Any java programming editor Ex. (Netbeans – IntelliJ […]

Introduction This article is about configuring and starting an Apache Kafka server on a Windows OS and Linux. This guide will also provide instructions to set up Java and Apache Zookeeper, and after the setup we will create a simple pipeline to test our installation. Kafka on windows Make sure you have the following prerequisites […]

What Is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is an open source project, initially created by LinkedIn, that is designed to be a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design, which we will investigate in more detail in this Article. Kafka was designed with a […]