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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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Getting Started with Scala and Apache Kafka

Confluent

If you’re getting started with Apache Kafka® and event streaming applications, you’ll be pleased to see the variety of languages available to start interacting with the event streaming platform. It […].

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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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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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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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What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.5

Confluent

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The community has created another exciting release. We are making progress […].

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Ranking Websites in Real-time with Apache Kafka’s Streams API

Confluent

Learn how Zalando, Europe’s largest online fashion retailer, uses Apache Kafka and the Kafka Streams API with Scala on AWS for real-time fashion insights.

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