When data is analyzed and processed in real-time, it can yield insights and actionable information either instantly or with very little delay from the time the data is collected. The […]

A poison pill is a message deliberately sent to a Kafka topic, designed to consistently fail when consumed, regardless of the number of consumption attempts. Poison Pill scenarios are frequently […]

Several tools/scripts are included in the bin directory of the Apache Kafka binary installation. Even if that directory has a number of scripts, through this article I want to highlight […]

This short article explains how to resolve the error “ERROR Fatal error during KafkaServer startup. Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServer)kafka.common.InconsistentClusterIdException:” when we start the Apache Kafka installed and configured on a […]

Aside from holding the publish-subscribe messaging system functionality, Apache Kafka is gaining outstanding momentum as a distributed event streaming platform. It is being leveraged for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, […]

This article aims to explain the steps to coupling Confluent Schema Registry with existed/operational multi-broker Apache Kafka cluster(Local deployment). The Confluent is an integrated platform bundle with Apache Kafka and […]

This short article aims to highlight the list of commands to manage a running multi-broker multi-topic Kafka cluster utilizing built-in scripts. These commands will be helpful/beneficial when the cluster is […]

  Despite the fact that Apache Zookeeper’s functionalities are not legitimately noticeable to end-client however it remains as the spine for hyped components like Hadoop to oversee automatic failover, Kafka’s […]

  The main objective of this article is to highlight why to cut the bridge between Apache Zookeeper and Kafka which is an upcoming project from the Apache software foundation. […]