Install Apache Kafka on Linux
What is Apache Kafka ?
No, Kafka is not only the famous author (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka), it’s an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system with powerful skills like scalability and fault tolerance. It’s also a stream processing platform (near real-time) for the streaming datasources. The design of Apache Kafka is strongly influenced by the commit logs. Apache Kafka was originally developed by Linkedin and was subsequently open sourced in early 2011.
The installation is pretty simple but need to be rigorous :
That's a good intro Eric. If you are interested in an automated setup for demo/playground purposes, check out this one https://github.com/gkoenig/confluent-vagrant-ansible