This is the second post in a series about using Kafka and Azure Data Explorer (ADX) to develop a real-time leaderboard for online gaming. Hmm, the second post you say - why is it that the post title says " - I"? Good question; that is because the initial post was more of an intro, where I introduced a framework for generating and publishing events to Kafka.
Anyway, in this post, you will learn more about ADX and why it is an excellent choice for near real-time applications, how to “hook up” Kafka to ADX and how to ingest data into an ADX database.