Creating a Streaming Data Pipeline With Apache Kafka

About this course

This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you create a streaming data pipeline with Kafka providing you a hands-on look at the Kafka Streams API. You will run a Java application that uses the Kafka Streams library by showcasing a simple end-to-end data pipeline powered by Apache.

What you will learn

• Start a Kafka cluster on a Compute Engine single machine
• Write example input data to a Kafka topic, using the console producer included in Kafka
• Process the input data with a Java application called WordCount that uses the Kafka Streams library