Leveraging Kafka Streams to reduce DB Hits

I have been working with Apache Kafka for more than 4 years now and have seen it evolve from a basic distributed commit log service (Something very similar to Transaction log or Operation log) to a full fledged tool for data pipelining and become the backbone of data collection platforms. For those who don’t know about Kafka, it was developed by LinkedIn, and was open sourced in early 2011. It is…

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