Sending Data to Kafka using Pyspark
“Kafka is a distributed event-streaming platform designed to handle real-time data feeds with high throughput and low latency.”
This article details how to use PySpark to send a transformed two-column dataframe to Kafka for real-time data streaming. It also explains how to set up Kafka using the Confluent platform for seamless integration with a Hadoop cluster, avoiding the complexity of installing Kafka locally.