Kafka

Introduction

Introduction

Originally developed by LinkedIn, Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed streaming platform that allows communication and integration between servers, processors, and applications. It is used for logging and processing data at a large scale. Presently, it is managed by Apache Software Foundation under Confluent. 

Apache Kafka is written in Scala and Java. The name Kafka was chosen by its creators after the prominent author Franz Kafka.

If you aspire to make a successful career in Big Data, then you must have a good understanding of Apache Kafka clusters. The enormous amount of data handling poses two main challenges -  to collect staggering volumes of data and then to analyze it. 

To overcome this problem, we need a message broker. Kafka is a good fit for the messaging system within high-end distributed systems. It offers a scalable and built-in partitioning system that is resilient to errors and failures. It supports an automatic recovery system making it ideal for communication in real-world applications. 

Moreover, it allows for a plethora of permanent customers making it a great replacement for traditional message broker systems. 

 

Higher reliability and inherent fault-tolerance make Kafka a desirable choice for over 80% of Fortune 100 companies. It is trustworthy and permanently stores streams of data in its durable clusters. Additionally, it can stretch clusters over large geographical regions efficiently. The built-in streaming facilitates seamless streaming of events and its Connect interface can connect to almost every event source to process events in a myriad of programming languages.