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How to Tune RocksDB for Your Kafka Streams Application

Confluent

Apache Kafka ships with Kafka Streams, a powerful yet lightweight client library for Java and Scala to implement highly scalable and elastic applications and microservices that process and analyze data […].

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12 Programming Languages Walk into a Kafka Cluster…

Confluent

When it was first created, Apache Kafka ® had a client API for just Scala and Java. Since then, the Kafka client API has been developed for many other programming languages which enables you to pick the language you want. At Confluent, we have an engineering team dedicated to the development of these Kafka clients.

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Scala For Big Data Engineering – Why should you care?

Advancing Analytics: Data Engineering

The thought of learning Scala fills many with fear, its very name often causes feelings of terror. The truth is Scala can be used for many things; from a simple web application to complex ML (Machine Learning). The name Scala stands for “scalable language.” So what companies are actually using Scala?

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Java vs Python for Data Science in 2023-What's your choice?

ProjectPro

Why do data scientists prefer Python over Java? Java vs Python for Data Science- Which is better? Which has a better future: Python or Java in 2021? This blog aims to answer all questions on how Java vs Python compare for data science and which should be the programming language of your choice for doing data science in 2021.

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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

Apache Kafka came in 2011 and gave the industry a much better way to move real-time data. Apache Kafka has its architectural limitations, and Apache Pulsar was released in 2016. At various times it’s been Java, Scala, and Python. Apache Flink came in 2011 and gave us our first real streaming engine.

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Apache Spark Use Cases & Applications

Knowledge Hut

As per Apache, “ Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing ” Spark is a cluster computing framework, somewhat similar to MapReduce but has a lot more capabilities, features, speed and provides APIs for developers in many languages like Scala, Python, Java and R.

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15+ Must Have Data Engineer Skills in 2023

Knowledge Hut

Java Big Data requires you to be proficient in multiple programming languages, and besides Python and Scala, Java is another popular language that you should be proficient in. Java can be used to build APIs and move them to destinations in the appropriate logistics of data landscapes.