• Online, Self-Paced
Course Description

A major feature of Apache Kafka is building real-time applications that react to data streams. In this course, you will discover how to create real-time applications in Kafka.

Learning Objectives

Real-time Kafka Applications

  • start the course
  • describe the real-time capabilities of Kafka
  • install and set up the Twitter Streaming API and framework to create a real-time Twitter application
  • create a Kafka Producer to process tweets
  • create a Consumer to transfer tweets to Spark
  • use Spark to process tweets and take action on specific words
  • create a Consumer to transfer tweets to Storm
  • use Storm to process the words in incoming tweets
  • use Kafka, Spark, and Storm in a pipeline to process words in a sentence

Practice: Real-time Apps for Kafka

  • create a simple real-time application using Kafka, Spark, and Storm

Framework Connections

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