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Paul Crickard
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Paul Crickard authored a book on the Leaflet JavaScript module. He has been programming for over 15 years and has focused on GIS and geospatial programming for 7 years. He spent 3 years working as a planner at an architecture firm, where he combined GIS with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and CAD. Currently, he is the CIO at the 2nd Judicial District Attorney's Office in New Mexico.
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Creating ZooKeeper and Kafka clusters

Most tutorials on running applications that can be distributed often only show how to run a single node and then you are left wondering how you would run this in production. In this section, you will build a three-node ZooKeeper and Kafka cluster. It will run on a single machine. However, I will split each instance into its own folder and each folder simulates a server. The only modification when running on different servers would be to change localhost to the server IP.

The next chapter will go into detail on the topic of Apache Kafka, but for now it is enough to understand that Kafka is a tool for building real-time data streams. Kafka was developed at LinkedIn and is now an Apache project. You can find Kafka on the web at http://kafka.apache.org. The website is shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 12.1 – Apache Kafka website

Kafka requires another application, ZooKeeper, to manage information about the...

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Paul Crickard

Paul Crickard authored a book on the Leaflet JavaScript module. He has been programming for over 15 years and has focused on GIS and geospatial programming for 7 years. He spent 3 years working as a planner at an architecture firm, where he combined GIS with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and CAD. Currently, he is the CIO at the 2nd Judicial District Attorney's Office in New Mexico.
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