In this section, we will examine the architectural components and related terminology in Kafka. Basically, Kafka consists of the following components: Kafka Cluster—a collection of one or more servers ...

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There's little doubt that Apache Kafka has become a de facto standard in the world of streaming data processing. But the fact that it's a standard, and that the core technology is open source, makes ...