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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 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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The first step in any data pipeline is data ingestion, which brings data from the source system for necessary processing. There are different types of source systems available and to bring data from these source systems there are different specific tools available. Big Data ecosystem has its own setup of tools to bring data from these systems, for example, sqoop can be used to bring data from relational databases, Gobblin can bring data from relational databases, REST API, FTP server, and so on.

Apache flume is a Java-based, distributed, scalable, fault tolerant system to consume data from a streaming source, such as Twitter, log server, and so on. At one time it was a widely used application in different use case and still large numbers of pipeline use Flume (specifically as a producer to Kafka).

Apache Flume architecture

The producer and consumer problem was there even before Hadoop. The common problem that the producer/consumer faces is the producer producing data faster than the consumer...

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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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