Using Kafka with Junit

One of the neat features that the excellent Spring Kafka project provides, apart from a easier to use abstraction over raw Kafka…

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Monitoring Real-Time Uber Data Using Spark Machine Learning, Streaming, and the Kafka API (Part 1)

According to Gartner, by 2020, a quarter of a billion connected cars will form a major element of the Internet…

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Spring Kafka Producer/Consumer sample

My objective here is to show how Spring Kafka provides an abstraction to raw Kafka Producer and Consumer API’s that is…

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How to Get Started with Spark Streaming and MapR Streams Using the Kafka API

This post will help you get started using Apache Spark Streaming for consuming and publishing messages with MapR Streams and the Kafka…

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Achieving Order Guarnetee in Kafka with Partitioning

One of the most important features of Kafka is to do load balancing of messages and guarantee ordering in a…

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How Apache Kafka and MapR Streams Handle Topic Partitions

Streaming data can be used as a long-term auditable history when you choose a messaging system with persistence, but is…

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Apache Kafka – What Is It And Does It Compare To Amazon Kinesis?

What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is an open-source, distributed, scalable publish-subscribe messaging system.  The organization responsible for the software…

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Getting Started with Heron on Apache Mesos and Apache Kafka

Heron has been Open Sourced, woo! Heron is Twitter’s  distributed stream computation system for running Apache Storm compatible topologies in production. A Heron…

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Distributed Quasar Actors with Kafka and ZeroMQ

So you’ve got a fancy design using actors, you’ve chosen the JVM and Quasar’s powerful, loyal take on the subject.…

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