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Apache Kafka with CMAK on CentOS 8

Apache Kafka data streaming is used by over 80% of Fortune 100 companies including Goldman Sachs, Target, and Intuit for mission critical applications.  Kafka is built with a client server architecture that handles event producers, processors, connectors, and consumers for scaling without downtime. A high throughput capability manages large data flux in real time. It publishes and subscribes to event streams while continuously importing and exporting data from other systems.  

Kafka’s reliability is ensured by its distributed structure. Each data partition is replicated for durability and reliability. Clusters have fault tolerance against database and server failure. The Cluster Manager for Apache Kafka (CMAK) monitors clusters and service performance. 

CentOS is the industry standard software developer OS for web hosting. It is highly stable, secure, and enterprise ready.  

CentOS Linux is supported by and compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It runs on multiple processor architectures to achieve high performance on minimal hardware.  

Yellowdog Updater Modified (YUM) is the distro package manager and customizes features as needed. Management panel supports streamlined site hosting duties and server procedures. Bug reporting simplifies troubleshooting by automatically detailing technical issues. 

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Apache Kafka with CMAK on Oracle Linux 8.4 streams generate real time information for transactions, shipping, logistics, and sensor data from apps on IoT (Internet of Things) devices and databases. Information is continuously collected, processed, stored, and analyzed, but users can retrospectively manipulate data. Apache deploys microservices and distributes apps to scale streams in parallel. Its scalable client server architecture features a pull-based design with batch processing to prevent user-end overload. A scalable replication election algorithm decouples producers and consumers to transfer and store data. Event streams redirect to multiple locations as desired. Apache streams persist through network and hardware outages. 

Cluster Manager for Apache Kafka monitors and controls how multiple clusters function. Partitioning and replicating stream data into distributed clusters guarantees minimal latency, high fault tolerance, and zero message loss for on premise and cloud deployments. CMAK enables users to create partition assignments and reassignments. Kafka Connect adds connectors to event sources like PostGres, JMS, Elasticsearch, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) which are managed by REST API. Custom connectors are also supported. Apache Kafka supports a multitude of common client libraries such as C, C++ Go, Java, Scala, .NET, and Python. Security uses SSL and SASL mechanisms for traffic encryption and authentication. 

CentOS is a free Linux distribution created from Red Hat source code. It is easily used and deployed across multiple nodes. The cost-effective open source development platform saves money on licensing. GNU licensing gives users freedom to modify and redistribute the source code. 

A straightforward design optimizes resource allocation towards applications. CentOS features Bash Unix shell as the command line interface (CLI) and GNOME Shell as the graphical user interface (GUI). Centos supportsx86_64, POWERPC and AArch64 architectures. Access or make Live CD and Live USB versions. CentOS publishes Amazon Machine Images (AMI) into Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 for virtual machine creation. 

The YUM package manager supports RPM packages in CentOS. A repository of addons is available to increase functionality by providing packages for database servers, programming languages, and more. CentOS features support for all open source software languages including C, Python, Perl, and Ruby. Proprietary languages include MATLAB and Wolfram. 

Core network services like dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP)web server integration (Apache, NGINX), file sharing, and DNS make CentOS an inclusive web hosting solution. CentOS Web Panel is a performance monitor that provides statistics from hosted sites. CentOS extended-release cycle and long-term support (LTS) include rigorous testing and debugging to maintain stability and relevance. 

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