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What is Apache Kafka?
What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is a distributed data streaming platform that
Kafka 101
Learn about the fundamentals of Apache Kafka. This tutorial covers basic concepts of Kafka and its components.
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What are topics?
What are topics? A topic is a collection of messages that you want to group
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What are partitions?
What are partitions? A partition contains a subset of the messages written to a
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What are messages?
What are messages? A message or record is a key/value pair with data for the
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What are producers?
What are producers? Producers publish messages to a topic, which appends each
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What are consumers?
What are consumers? Each message published to a topic is delivered to a consumer
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Kafka ecosystem
Kafka ecosystem The brokers and API are not the only tools offered to developers