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Angelo Cesaro
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Apache Kafka Introduction for beginners in 6 mins

In this tutorial you will learn about Apache Kafka, an open-source distributed event streaming platform.
We will talk about what Kafka is and what problems it solves.
Apache Kafka was designed to solve mainly 2 problems, the data integration problem and the real-time processing problem.
To understand what this actually means, I will also explain what was the 'typical' approach before Kafka and
why Apache Kafka can be considered the central nervous system for data.

Table Of Contents

  • Apache Kafka's Origins
  • Why Apache Kafka: Data Integration
  • Integration with Small Numbers of Systems
  • More Systems introduce Complexity
  • Decoupling Data Streams and Systems
  • Typical approach: Batch Processing
  • Why Apache Kafka: Real Time Processing
  • Stream Data Platform
  • Apache Kafka: the central nervous system for data

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