Apache Kafka Basics

Apache Kafka Basics
This post contains a brief overview of the terms and mechanisms of Kafka. Reading this won’t make you a Kafka expert, but it will allow you to grasp the basic concepts. Overview # Apache Kafka is publish/subscribe messaging software designed to handle communication between different systems. It is often described as distributed event streaming platform, and it is used to implement event-driven architectures. Its benefits are very high performance, reliability and message retention.
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