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If you are new to Kafka, please read the first three posts of the series given below. Else dive in. Introduction to Kafka Kafka Internals Reliable Data Delivery in Kafka Troubleshooting Under Replicated Kafka Partitions If you are preparing for an interview, this post contains most of the things that you should know about Kafka.... Continue Reading →
A quick recap of the basic terminology of Kafka can be found here. The fundamental unit that Kafka manages is called a message. Message is simply a byte array without any restriction of the format. As you would know, producers produce data to a topic. Each topic is further divided into multiple partitions. Messages are... Continue Reading →
What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform. This essentially means that Kafka has following capabilities: Publish and subscribe to the stream of records just like how message queue (e.g. RabbitMQ) works Store streams of records for specified time. Kakfa is not a replacement for database or a logging platform. However, kafka... Continue Reading →