Kafka Quick Start
what’s kafka Kafka is a distributed streaming platform. Think of it as a high-throughput, fault-tolerant message queue on steroids. It’s designed for handling real-time data feeds. Concepts Topic: A category or feed name to which records are published. Partition: A topic is divided into partitions, which are ordered, immutable sequences of records. Partitions enable parallelism and scalability. Producer: An application that publishes records to a Kafka topic. Consumer: An application that subscribes to one or more topics and processes the records. ...