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Apache Kafka: What & Why?

Reading Time: 6 minutes What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is a well-known name in the world of Big Data. It is one of the most used distributed streaming platforms. Kafka is just not a messaging queue but a full-fledged event streaming platform. It is a framework for storing, reading and analyzing streaming data. It is a publish-subscribe based durable messaging system exchanging data between processes, applications, and servers. Continue Reading

How to setup and use zookeeper in scala using Apache Curator

Reading Time: 2 minutes In order to use Zookeeper to manage your project’s configurations across the cluster, first we will setup the zookeeper ensemble on our local machine (setup is for testing on a single machine) by following these steps: 1) Download a stable zookeeper release 2) Unpack it at three places and rename it to: /home/user/Desktop/zookeeper1, /home/user/Desktop/zookeeper2, and /home/user/Desktop/zookeeper3 3) In order to use zookeeper we will need Continue Reading