Now, let's do some python with our kafka. (Hey, your kafka and zookeeper should still be running.) (and if not, start 'em up again) in a directory named (lines10) in your projects somewhere, create a file producer.py from time import sleep from json import dumps from kafka import KafkaProducer

So make sure you have java 1.8 running $ java -version java version "1.8.0_66" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_66-b17) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.66-b17, mixed mode) and then install kafka brew install kafka this should install

As part of your agenda, read these articles, as many as you can. You might even decide to follow one through to the end. But that's up to you. Kafka is one of the shiniest tech out there. Someplaces know it and use it, others are not sure what it