• Getting started with Apache Kafka in Python

    This post is the part of Data Engineering Series. In this post, I am going to discuss Apache Kafka and how Python programmers can use it for building distributed systems. What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is an open-source streaming platform that was initially built by LinkedIn. It was later handed over to Apache foundation and open sourced it in 2011. According to Wikipedia: Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation, written in Scala and Java. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Its storage layer is essentially a “massively scalable pub/sub message queue architected…