A step-by-step introduction to Apache Kafka, its install, and its implementation using .NET Core 6 with background information, code blocks, and guide pictures.
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We will go over Apache Kafka basics, installation, and operation, as well as a step-by-step implementation using a .NET Core 6 web application.
Events are the things that happen within our application when we navigate something. For example, we sign up on any website and order something, so, these are the events.
The event streaming platform records different types of data like transaction, historical, and real-time data. This platform is also used to process events and allow different consumers to process results immediately and in a timely manner.
An event-driven platform allows us to monitor our business and real-time data from different types of devices like IoT and many more. After analyzing, it provides a good customer experience based on different types of events and needs.
Below, are a few bullet points that describe Apache Kafka:
An event or record is the message that we read and write to the Kafka server; we do this in the form of events in our business world, and it contains a key, a value, a timestamp, and other metadata headers. The key, value, and time stamp, in this case, are as follows:
The producer is a client application that sends messages to the Kafka node or broker.
The consumer is an application that receives data from Kafka.
The Kafka cluster is the set of computers that share the workload with each other with varying purposes.
The broker is a Kafka server that acts as an agent between the producer and consumer, who communicate via the broker.
