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Load Testing Apache kafka using Kafkameter

You can refer overview of Kafka here . For Installation and configuring Kafka , refer the previous post : Configuring Apache Kafka Step 1 Go to githup and download kafkameter https://github.com/BrightTag/kafkameter Step 2 Follow the Steps for building the kafkameter.jar Step 3 Place the generated jar in $JMETER_HOME/lib/ext folder Step 4 Restart jmeter Step 5 […]

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Bigdata

Configuring Apache Kafka Environment

Kafka is used widely in social networking websites because of its performance. Refer Kafka introduction for more information.  Here i’m going to show how to setup Kafka in simple 8 steps. Step 1 Download Kafka from Apache Website: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/0.8.2.2/kafka_2.9.1-0.8.2.2.tgz Step 2 Untar downloaded archive. Step 3 cd kafka_2.9.2-0.8.2.2 Step 4 Start zookeeper which is used […]

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Apache Kafka – Introduction

Apache Kafka is the distributed messaging system which serves as a substitute for traditional JMS messaging systems in the world of BIG-DATA. Another way to describe Kafka as per Apache website is “Apache Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log”. It was originally developed by LinkedIn and later on became a part […]