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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Setup a single Apache Kafka node on CentOS 7

Apache Kafka is an open source distributed stream processing platform. From a high-level perspective, Kafka is a distributed messaging system that allows producers to send messages to a topic and consumers to read messages from a topic. Kafka is massively scalable and offers high throughput and low latency when operated in a cluster. This article explains how to set up a single Kafka node for a development environment.

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ARCHITECTURE

Setup a Kafka cluster with 3 nodes on CentOS 7

Apache Kafka is an open source distributed stream processing platform. From a high-level perspective, Kafka is a distributed messaging system that allows producers to send messages to a topic and consumers to read messages from a topic. Kafka is massively scalable and offers high throughput and low latency when operated in a cluster. This article explains how to set up a Kafka cluster consisting of 3 nodes for a development environment.

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