Record (Message) In a kafka message, Key is not a mandatory field, but is must for compaction and grouping. Value is where the actual content/payload goes. Following picture shows a kafka message structure: Producer In kafka ecosystem, Producer is the one responsible for producing and pushing messages to kafka topics. A Producer is responsible for…
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TOPIC When we talk about Kafka – Its all about messaging. Messages in a kafka are logically represented as Topics. So, what is a topic then? Topic is a central abstraction in a Kafka ecosystem. It is a logical entity, that spans across the length of kafka cluster. Topics are kept in a daemon service…
Read More →Lets get into some demo, which will introduce us to lot of stuff. There will be a tendency to try to know everything but I suggest to hold on as in next blogs we will lot of stuff everything in detail. Download and setup Before installing/setting up kafka, please install java 8 on your dev…
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