Kafka Spark Streaming Integration


Kafka Spark Streaming Integration 

 Spark Streaming has been getting some attention lately as a real-time data processing tool, often mentioned alongside Apache Storm. If you ask me, no real-time data processing tool is complete without Kafka integration (smile), hence I added an example Spark Streaming application to kafka-storm-starter that demonstrates how to read from Kafka and write to Kafka, using Avro as the data format and Twitter Bijection for handling the data serialization. In this post I will explain this Spark Streaming example in further detail and also shed some light on the current state of Kafka integration in Spark Streaming. All this with the disclaimer that this happens to be my first experiment with Spark Streaming.

Read more: 
https://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2014/10/01/kafka-spark-streaming-integration-example-tutorial/

More references:
https://databricks.com/blog/2017/04/04/real-time-end-to-end-integration-with-apache-kafka-in-apache-sparks-structured-streaming.html

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