Resolved “ERROR Fatal error during KafkaServer startup. Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServer)kafka.common.InconsistentClusterIdException:” This short article explains how to resolve the error “ERROR Fatal error during KafkaServer startup. Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServer)kafka.common.InconsistentClusterIdException:” when we start the Apache Kafka installed and configured on a multi-node cluster. You can read here the steps for setting up multi-node Apache Kafka cluster. Without integrating Apache Zookeeper, Kafka…

As a bird’s eye view, Apache Zookeeper has been leveraged to get coordination services for managing distributed applications. Holds responsibility for providing configuration information, naming, synchronization, and group services over large clusters in distributed systems. To consider as an example, Apache Kafka uses Zookeeper for choosing their leader node for…

Overcome LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE error on Multi-Broker Apache Kafka Cluster Kafka Connect assumes a significant part in streaming data between Apache Kafka and other data systems. As a tool, it holds the responsibility of a scalable and reliable way to move the data in and out of Apache Kafka. …

Data is quickly becoming the new currency of the digital economy, but it is useless if it can’t be processed. The processing of data is essential for subsequent decision-making or executable actions either by the human brain or various devices/applications etc. There are two primary ways of processing data namely…

A table can be defined as an arrangement of data in rows and columns and in a similar fashion, if you visualize from the Big Data perspective, the large number of individual files that hold the actual data can be organized in a tabular manner too. We are already familiar…

In short, the initial architecture of the data warehouse was designed to provide analytical insights by collecting data from various heterogeneous data sources into the centralized repository and acted as a fulcrum for decision support and business intelligence (BI). …

Aside from holding the publish-subscribe messaging system functionality, Apache Kafka is gaining outstanding momentum as a distributed event streaming platform. It is being leveraged for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, etc. Additionally, standing as a backbone for IoT data platform to handle massive amounts of heterogeneous data ingestion. …

Kafka Connect assumes a significant part for streaming data between Apache Kafka and other data systems. As a tool, it holds the responsibility of a scalable and reliable way to move the data in and out of Apache Kafka. …

There are multiple ways to ingest data streams into Kafka topic and subsequently deliver to various types of consumers who are hooked to the topic. The stream of data that collects continuously from the topic by consumers, passes through multiple data pipelines and then stream processing engines like Apache Spark…