Apache Kafka
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Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications.
Architecture of Kafka
Kafka has a distributed architecture consisting of the following components:
- Producer: Applications that produce data and send it to Kafka topics.
- Broker: Kafka runs as a cluster of one or more servers called brokers, which store and manage the data.
- Topic: A category or feed name to which messages are published by producers.
- Partition: Topics are divided into partitions for scalability and parallelism.
- Consumer: Applications that subscribe to topics and consume the data.
- ZooKeeper: Coordinates and manages Kafka brokers.
The architecture allows for horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, and high throughput.
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