kafka

Apache Kafka Consumer Group

On producer side, messages are load balanced across partition based on hashed key. On the consumer side, to ensure that each message is processed by only one consumer within the group, allowing for load balancing, fault tolerance, and efficient utilization(…)

Apache Kafka Concepts by Example

In this blog post, I will demonstrate the first few concepts to understand when you want to learn Apache Kafka. Documentation explains it well, but I find that concrete examples give a better feeling of the(…)

Kafka Monitoring in Prometheus

Enabling monitoring on Kafka with Prometheus/Grafana is not more difficult than others exporters I configured in my previous monitoring in Prometheus blogs. Let’s see this together. JMX Exporter vs Kafka Exporter As Kafka is a Java based application, it would(…)

Ansible Driven Automation and Kafka

I will add another example of what can be done with Ansible Driven Automation by interfacing it with Kafka. For those who wonder what Event-Driven Ansible is have a look at my previous blog about it.

Install Apache Kafka on Linux

What is Apache Kafka ? No, Kafka is not only the famous author (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka), it’s an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system with powerful skills like scalability and fault tolerance. It’s also a stream processing platform (near real-time) for(…)