Practice Architecture of Kafka: A Decentralized and Replicated Log - 3.4 | Week 8: Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka | Distributed and Cloud Systems Micro Specialization
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3.4 - Architecture of Kafka: A Decentralized and Replicated Log

Learning

Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What is the role of a producer in Kafka?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about what creates data in a messaging system.

Question 2

Easy

What does ZooKeeper manage in a Kafka cluster?

πŸ’‘ Hint: What tool coordinates connections between components?

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Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What is the primary role of ZooKeeper in Kafka?

  • Managing producer connections
  • Coordinating brokers and their metadata
  • Processing messages

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the overarching control system in the architecture.

Question 2

True or False: In Kafka, a leader is responsible for handling all reads and writes for a partition.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the hierarchy within broker roles.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Design a simple Kafka architecture for a retail application that collects and processes transaction logs in real-time. Identify and describe the components involved.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how each part interacts within the Kafka ecosystem.

Question 2

What strategies can you propose to handle a scenario where the leader broker of a partition fails? Discuss fault tolerance mechanisms in Kafka.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Focus on the importance of redundancy and quick recovery.

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