Kafka
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External
- https://kafka.apache.org/documentation
- Kafka Overview https://www.slideshare.net/junrao/kafka-replication-apachecon2013
- https://www.confluent.io
Internal
Overview
Kafka is a distributed publish/subscribe messaging system. It is used for real-time event processing, log aggregation, monitoring, queueing, etc. Kafka has database-like durability guarantees. It can sustain high throughput (tens of MB/sec/server).
Subjects
Organizatorium
- DataObjects in Kafka topics.
- Offset per topic should be maintained.
- Kafka cluster.
- Kafka broker. Each cluster has a number of brokers.