CodeCrafters
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Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform often used for high-performance data pipelines. In this challenge, you'll build your own Kafka broker that's capable of serving basic requests.
Along the way you'll learn about TCP servers, the Kafka wire protocol and more.
Stages
Bind to a port
Send Correlation ID
Parse Correlation ID
Parse API Version
Handle APIVersions requests
Concurrent Clients
Serial requests
Concurrent requests
Listing Partitions
Include DescribeTopicPartitions in APIVersions
List for an unknown topic
List for a single partition
List for multiple partitions
List for multiple topics
Consuming Messages
Include Fetch in APIVersions
Fetch with no topics
Fetch with an unknown topic
Fetch with an empty topic
Fetch single message from disk
Fetch multiple messages from disk
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Ananthalakshmi Sankar
Automation Engineer at Apple
“
I think the instant feedback right there in the git push is really cool.
Didn't even know that was possible!
Patrick Burris
Senior Software Developer, CenturyLink