Apache Kafka

Determine Kafka broker health using Kafka stream application’s JMX metrics and setup Grafana alert

Apache Kafka, DevOps, Monitoring, Scala, Streaming

Reading Time: 3 minutes As we all know, Kafka exposes the JMX metrics whether it is Kafka broker, connectors or Kafka applications. A few days ago, I got the scenario where I needed to determine Kafka broker health with the help of Kafka stream application’s JMX metrics. It looks bit awkward, right? I should use the broker’s JMX metrics to do this, why am I looking to application JMX Continue Reading

Hawk-Rust Series: Kafka with Rust

Apache Kafka, Rust

Reading Time: 2 minutes In this post, we will see why we used Kafka for Hawk and how we implemented Kafka for Hawk since Hawk is built on Rust it will be interesting to learn how one can use Kafka with Rust.If you don’t have any idea what Hawk is here is a brief overview.Hawk is an image recognition application built in Rust using AWS services.For more details, you Continue Reading

Knolx: Alpakka-Connecting Kafka & ElasticSearch to Akka Streams

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Hi all, Knoldus has organized a 30 min session on 1st  March 2019 at 3:30 PM. The topic was Alpakka – Connecting Kafka and ElasticSearch to Akka Streams.  Many people have joined and enjoyed the session. I am going to share the slides here. Please let me know if you have any question related to linked slides or video. The slides of the KnolX are here: And Continue Reading

Flinkathon: First Step towards Flink’s DataStream API

Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Big Data and Fast Data, Flink, Scala, Streaming, Streaming Solutions

Reading Time: 3 minutes In our previous blog posts: Flinkathon: Why Flink is better for Stateful Streaming applications? Flinkathon: What makes Flink better than Kafka Streams? We saw why Apache Flink is a better choice for streaming applications. In this blog post, we will explore how easy it is to express a streaming application using Apache Flink’s DataStream API. DataStream API DataStream API is used to develop regular programs Continue Reading

Flinkathon: What makes Flink better than Kafka Streams?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Initially, I would like you all to focus on a few questions before comparing the frameworks:1. Is there any comparison or similarity between Flink and the Kafka?2. What could be better in Flink over the Kafka?3. Is it the problem or system requirement to use one over the other? Before talking about the Flink betterment and use cases over the Kafka, let’s first understand their Continue Reading

Kafka: Consumer – Push vs Pull approach

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever thought about the Push vs Pull approach for the system, which one suits or solves which problem? Another Question why did Kafka choose Pull over Push design for Consumers? Before talking about the Kafka approach, whether the Broker should push the data to consumer or consumer should pull from Kafka? Let’s first understand both of the approaches, as each one has its Continue Reading

KSQL: Streams and Tables

Apache Kafka, SQL, , ,

Reading Time: 3 minutes By now you must be familiar with KSQL and how to get started with it. If not, check out the Part1 KSQL: Getting started with Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka of this series. In this blog, we’ll move one step forward to get an understanding of the Dual streaming model to see what abstractions does KSQL use to process the data. All the data that we Continue Reading

Monitor a Kafka stream application with Graphite-Grafana using JMX metrics

Apache Kafka, Architecture, Big Data and Fast Data, cluster, DCOS, DevOps, Docker, Java, Messages, Microservices, Non-Blocking, Reactive Programming, Scala, Web

Reading Time: 5 minutes A few days back, we got the requirement that we need to monitor a Kafka stream application using JMX metrics. We looked for the solution and reached to the conclusion which we will discuss in this blog. I will try to explain each and every component of the solution along with the setup and the integration part of the whole system. Proposed solution: Service (application) exposes Continue Reading

Hands-on: Apache Kafka with Scala

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Apache Kafka is an open sourced distributed streaming platform used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. It is horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, wicked fast, and runs in production in thousands of companies. Before the introduction of Apache Kafka, data pipleines used to be very complex and time-consuming. A separate streaming pipeline was needed for every consumer. You can guess the complexity of it with Continue Reading

Alpakka – Connecting Kafka and ElasticSearch to Akka streams

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Reading Time: 4 minutes In our previous blog, we had a look at what Akka streams are and how they are different from the other streaming mechanisms we have. In this blog, we will be taking a little step forward into the world of Akka Streams. In order to work with Akka streams, we need a mechanism to connect Akka Streams to the existing system components. That is where Alpakka Continue Reading

Exactly-Once Semantics with Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka, Scala, , , , , , , , , ,

Reading Time: 4 minutes Kafka’s exactly once semantics was recently introduced with the version 0.11 which enabled the message being delivered exactly once to the end consumer even if the producer retries to send the messages. This major release raised many eyebrows in the community as people believed that this is not mathematically possible in distributed systems. Jay Kreps, Co-founder on Confluent, and Co-creator of Apache Kafka explained its Continue Reading

Generate Docker Image For Mesosphere Kafka Client

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever tried to access Kafka running on mesos on top of DCOS, and figure out that you end up with no latest Kafka client image in the docker hub? I have uploaded a new image with the Latest Kafka Stable Version 2.0.0, and one can get it easily – docker pull piyushdocker/kafka-client-2.0.0-image If you want to create your own image with any other Continue Reading

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