Apache Kafka Mastery: A Definitive Guide to Distributed Streaming Architecture and Real-Time Data Processing
1. What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, distributed event streaming platform originally developed by LinkedIn and donated to the Apache Software Foundation. It functions primarily as a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system, designed for processing large volumes of real-time data feeds efficiently. Kafka enables systems to publish streams of records (events or … Read more