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Kafka

High-level Architecture​

Common termns​

Brokers: they receive data from producers, reliably store them and provide them into consumers.

Records: A message or an event stored in Kafka.

Kafka message

Topics​

Topics are message categories. Each message should have a topic. Consumer can subscribe to the topics.

Topics

Producers​

Publish records to Kafka

Consumers​

Subscriber of kafka topics.

High Level Architecture​

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