In the first half of this JavaWorld introduction to Apache Kafka, you developed a couple of small-scale producer/consumer applications using Kafka. From these exercises you should be familiar with the ...

Apache Kafka, a popular Big Data component for distributed data streaming, is getting an automation boost from a new open source offering from LinkedIn called Cruise Control. Kafka is used to stream ...

In this section, we will examine the architectural components and related terminology in Kafka. Basically, Kafka consists of the following components: Kafka Cluster—a collection of one or more servers ...

After Apache Hadoop got the whole Big Data thing started, Apache Spark emerged as the new darling of the ecosystem, becoming one of the most active open source projects in the world by improving upon ...

Provectus, a Silicon Valley artificial intelligence (AI) consultancy, is releasing UI for Apache Kafka v0.2, with new features including support for switching read direction of topic messages, running ...