Episode 111 - Kafka
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Apache Kafka is a distributed stream processing software developed by LinkedIn and written in Scala and Java.
In this video I want to focus on the basics on Kafka, talk about how it works give finally spin up a kafka cluster and write a producer and a consumer.
Kafka Components
_ producer
_consumer
_topic
_partition
How Kafka works
Example ( Ride sharing )
Spin Kafka cluster
Write a producer
Write a consumer
Kafka Applications
Pros and Cons
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