Setting up a Streaming Data Pipeline With Kafka

Apache Kafka is a stream-processing framework that implements a message bus. It is a Scala and Java-based open-source development platform, which was developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The goal of Kafka is to provide a single, high-throughput, and low-latency platform for real-time data flows. Apache Kafka uses Zookeeper for naming and registry services.

Zookeeper is a naming registry that is used in distribution systems for service synchronization. In Kafka, the Zookeeper is responsible for managing and tracking the status of the Kafka cluster’s nodes, topics, and messages.

In this project, we’ll learn and have the hands-on configuration of Zookeeper and Kafka. After that, we’ll learn to start both services. We’ll create a topic using the terminal and, after that, we’ll create a console-based consumer and producer to check the proper data streamflow.