Installing the required software
We'll begin by installing the necessary software: Apache Kafka and OpenFire. Although Kafka is a distributed messaging system, it will work just fine installed as a single node, or even locally as part of a development environment. In a production environment, you will need to set up a cluster of one or more machines depending on your scaling requirements. The OpenFire server is not a clustered system and can be installed on a single node or locally.
Installing Kafka
Kafka depends on ZooKeeper for storing certain state information, much like Storm. Since Storm imposes a relatively light load on ZooKeeper, in many cases it is acceptable to share the same ZooKeeper cluster between both Kafka and Storm. Since we've ...
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