The Topic, the Message and the Partition
Traditional messaging patterns: message queue and publish – subscribe, have some limitations as a result of their design.
In the previous post – Apache Kafka Ideas – Part 1, a couple of messaging use cases were introduced. In order to define those cases with Kafka, it is important to understand its ideas. At the very heart of Kafka are topics and partitions. This post explains basic concepts behind them.
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