Apache Kafka — Introduction & Basic Commands

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In this blog post I will cover some of the basics of Apache Kafka and few useful commands to keep handy.

· Introduction
· Basic Commands
∘ Create Kafka topics with Partitions
∘ Deleting Kafka topics
∘ Listing Kafka topics
∘ Describe Kafka topics
∘ Data within each Kafka Partitions
∘ Kafka Topics Settings
∘ Modify Kafka Topics Settings
∘ Get Kafka Topic Partition Offset
∘ Kafka Consumer
∘ Delete Records from Kafka Topic
∘ Performance Test

Introduction

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform. It allows you to decouple your source system and target system. It is optimized for ingesting and processing streaming data in real-time. Due to its distributed nature, it provides high throughput, scalability, resilient architecture and fault tolerance. Producers can publish and consumers can subscribe to streams of records.

Few use-cases of Apache Kafka are:

1. Events/Messaging system
2. Application logs…