First Steps with Kafka Scripts
Explore how to utilize essential Kafka scripts such as kafka-console-producer and kafka-console-consumer to interact with Kafka servers. Learn the steps to start ZooKeeper and Kafka servers, and understand the role of these tools in setting a solid foundation for Kafka Streams application development.
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Kafka Streams applications are simply JVM applications that use the Kafka Streams application as a dependency. Most of the great features that come with Kafka Streams, such as fault tolerance, workload balancing, and parallelism, are actually provided by Kafka.
This is why, before we dive into the Streams part of Kafka Streams, we’ll pay a visit to the Kafka part. Just as web developers have tools (such as Postman and the browser’s dev tools) that aid ...