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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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Understanding Kafka Connect and Kafka Stream

Kafka Connect is a tool that provides the ability to move data into and out of the Kafka system. Thousands of use cases use the same kind of source and target system while using Kafka. Kafka Connect is comprised of Connectors for those common source or target systems.

Kafka Connect consists of a set of Connectors, and the Connectors are of two types:

  • Import Connectors: Import Connectors are used to bring data from the source system into Kafka topics. These Connectors accept configuration through property files and bring data into a Kafka topic in any way you wish. You don't need to write your own producer to do such jobs. A few of the popular Connectors are JDBC Connector, file Connector, and so on.
  • Export Connectors: Unlike Import Connectors, Export Connectors are used to copy data from Kafka topics to the target system. This...
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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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