Kafka

Description

• Kafka brokers: Servers run in a cluster
• Topics: Logical data unit that holds multiple partitions
• Partitions: The smallest storage unit that holds a subset of records
• Producers: Writes to the end of a specific partition
• Consumers: Reads from a partition using an offset
• Replication: Resilient and fault-tolerant
• Scaling: Partition strategy
• Immutable append-only event logs