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Published inAug 2017
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Chanchal Singh
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Chanchal Singh has over half decades experience in Product Development and Architect Design. He has been working very closely with leadership team of various companies including directors ,CTO's and Founding members to define technical road-map for company.He is the Founder and Speaker at meetup group Big Data and AI Pune MeetupExperience Speaks. He is Co-Author of Book Building Data Streaming Application with Apache Kafka. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai and a Master's degree in Computer Application from Amity University. He was also part of the Entrepreneur Cell in IIT Mumbai. His Linkedin Profile can be found at with the username Chanchal Singh.
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Manish Kumar
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Manish Kumar works as Director of Technology and Architecture at VSquare. He has over 13 years' experience in providing technology solutions to complex business problems. He has worked extensively on web application development, IoT, big data, cloud technologies, and blockchain. Aside from this book, Manish has co-authored three books (Mastering Hadoop 3, Artificial Intelligence for Big Data, and Building Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka).
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Kafka cluster internals

Well, this topic has been covered in bits and pieces in the introductory chapters of this book. However, in this section, we are covering this topic with respect to components or processes that play an important role in Kafka cluster. We will not only talk about different Kafka cluster components but will also cover how these components communicate with each other via Kafka protocols.

Role of Zookeeper

Kafka clusters cannot run without Zookeeper servers, which are tightly coupled with Kafka cluster installations. Therefore, you should first start this section by understanding the role of Zookeeper in Kafka clusters.

If we must define the role of Zookeeper in a few words, we can say that Zookeeper acts...

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Chanchal Singh

Chanchal Singh has over half decades experience in Product Development and Architect Design. He has been working very closely with leadership team of various companies including directors ,CTO's and Founding members to define technical road-map for company.He is the Founder and Speaker at meetup group Big Data and AI Pune MeetupExperience Speaks. He is Co-Author of Book Building Data Streaming Application with Apache Kafka. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai and a Master's degree in Computer Application from Amity University. He was also part of the Entrepreneur Cell in IIT Mumbai. His Linkedin Profile can be found at with the username Chanchal Singh.
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Manish Kumar

Manish Kumar works as Director of Technology and Architecture at VSquare. He has over 13 years' experience in providing technology solutions to complex business problems. He has worked extensively on web application development, IoT, big data, cloud technologies, and blockchain. Aside from this book, Manish has co-authored three books (Mastering Hadoop 3, Artificial Intelligence for Big Data, and Building Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka).
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