Tracing starts the moment a user interacts with an application. You send an initial request and that is assigned a unique trace ID. One trace represents one user interaction. As the request moves through the host system, every operation performed on it (span) is tagged with a few items. Ea...
Replication is at the centre of architecture in Kafka. Kafka’s official documentation’s very first line sums it up as “a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service.” Replication is important because it is the way Kafka ensures availability and reliability when individual nodes event...
In that case, you build your own application and bring in the Kafka Client Jars. This is normally done when you’re trying to handle some custom business logic, or when connecting to some external system prior to Kafka Connect being around.Kafka Connect was added in the Kafka 0.9.0 ...
Adherence to data privacy and security protocols is also of utmost importance in time-series data collection. Depending on the nature of the data being collected, there may be legal and ethical considerations regarding its handling and storage. For example, collecting personal health data requires co...
Batch processing is widely used in various industries due to its efficiency and ability to handle large volumes of repetitive tasks. Below are some common use cases that illustrate its versatility and importance: Financial transaction processing.Batch processing is essential for handling end-of-day pro...
Going by the textbook definition of a distributed system, it is simply a collection of independent computers that work together towards a common goal. The processing is calleddistributed computing. To an outsider, the distributed system would appear as a single entity. For example, when we enter...
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