Kafka

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Kafka

Apache Kafka terminology

• Producer: An application that sends message to Kafka
• Consumer: An Application that receives data from Kafka
• Broker: Kafka server
• Cluster: Group of computer sharing workload for a common
• Topic: A name for a Kafka stream
• Partition: Part of Kafka topic
• Offset: A sequence id given to message as they arrive an application
• Consumer group: A group of consumer acting as a single logical unit

References:

[1] Apache Kafka Intro
[2] Apache Kafka installation on mac