Event Streaming (Kafka)

High-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed event streaming

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Key idea: High-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed event streaming

Event Streaming (Kafka)

Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform used for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.

Key Concepts

•Topics & Partitions: Messages are published to topics, which are partitioned across brokers for parallel processing.
•Producer/Consumer: Producers write data to topics. Consumers read from topics. Decouples data generation from data consumption.
•Consumer Groups: Consumers coordinate to consume a topic's partitions. Each partition is consumed by only one member per group.
•Retention: Kafka stores messages durably on disk for a configured period, allowing replayability unlike traditional queues.

Real-World Applications

Uber (telemetry), Netflix (viewing history), LinkedIn (activity tracking) use Kafka for massive real-time event streaming.

Companion Learning & Architectural Comparisons

Tradeoff ComparisonApache Kafka vs RabbitMQ: Distributed Messaging Architecture

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