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Kafka and event streaming

Move events between systems in real time with Kafka, and understand partitions, consumer groups and delivery guarantees.

Kafka and streaming appeared in 32% of the Software Engineer and 30% of the Data Engineer postings we read. Managed services such as Amazon Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub and Azure Event Hubs follow the same ideas.

The examples run against a real single-node Kafka 4 broker on a laptop, replaying one hour of New York taxi trips as events.

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