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A Detailed Guide of Interview Questions on Apache Kafka

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Apache Kafka is an open-source publish-subscribe messaging application initially developed by LinkedIn in early 2011. It is a famous Scala-coded data processing tool that offers low latency, extensive throughput, and a unified platform to handle the data in real-time.

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Beyond Kafka: Conversation with Jark Wu on Fluss - Streaming Storage for Real-Time Analytics

Data Engineering Weekly

Fluss is a compelling new project in the realm of real-time data processing. It addresses many of Kafka's challenges in analytical infrastructure. The combination of Kafka and Flink is not a perfect fit for real-time analytics; the integration of Kafka and Lakehouse is very shallow.

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Apache Kafka Vs Apache Spark: Know the Differences

Knowledge Hut

And hence, there is a need to understand the concept of “stream processing “and the technology behind it. Spark Streaming Vs Kafka Stream Now that we have understood high level what these tools mean, it’s obvious to have curiosity around differences between both the tools. 7 Kafka stores data in Topic i.e., in a buffer memory.

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Kafka Streams’ Take on Watermarks and Triggers

Confluent

Back in May 2017, we laid out why we believe that Kafka Streams is better off without a concept of watermarks or triggers , and instead opts for a continuous refinement model. By continuous refinement , I mean that Kafka Streams emits new results whenever records are updated. It is important for the operational characteristics, though.

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Real-Time Analytics and Monitoring Dashboards with Apache Kafka and Rockset

Confluent

In the early days, many companies simply used Apache Kafka ® for data ingestion into Hadoop or another data lake. However, Apache Kafka is more than just messaging. Some Kafka and Rockset users have also built real-time e-commerce applications , for example, using Rockset’s Java, Node.js

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Streaming Data from the Universe with Apache Kafka

Confluent

This data pipeline is a great example of a use case for Apache Kafka ®. The data processing pipeline characterizes these objects, deriving key parameters such as brightness, color, ellipticity, and coordinate location, and broadcasts this information in alert packets. The case for Apache Kafka.

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Optimizing Kafka Streams Applications

Confluent

With the release of Apache Kafka ® 2.1.0, Kafka Streams introduced the processor topology optimization framework at the Kafka Streams DSL layer. This framework opens the door for various optimization techniques from the existing data stream management system (DSMS) and data stream processing literature.

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