What Apache Kafka is?
Apache Kafka can be thought of as a message broker. It has the following characteristics:
- allows sending messages between two parties
- allows one-to-one (peer to peer, queue) or one-to-many (broadcast, topic) message delivery
- persists messages
What ideas are behind Kafka and how does it differ from a classical broker? In this series of posts you’ll find out how does Apache Kafka work and be able to run and use Kafka cluster.
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