#apache kafka

I try to make a balance between reading the book "Kafka: The Definitive Guide - 2nd Edition," doing Confluent course lab exercises, and a little bit of Udemy projects with Kafka as well. In the middle of the week, I'm making my homepage to showcase some portfolio stuff, which is not my priority at this time, but it involves a lot of coding as well.

Feeling like I can answer any interview questions about Kafka at this point, including the fundamentals, use cases, and examples of writing a pub/sub system in Java.

“A book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”

For nearly a decade, integrating severe high-throughput continuous data streams—like an Amazon Kinesis shard logically generating 50,000 JSON blobs per second or an external Apache Kafka cluster executing massive microservice bus traffic—into standard target storage abstractions heavily demanded incredibly complex, explicitly managed custom polling layers. Engineers systematically wrote and…