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=Overview=
=Overview=
Kafka is a distributed publish/subscribe messaging system. It is used for real-time event processing, log aggregation, monitoring, queueing, etc. Kafka has [[Databases|database]]-like durability guarantees.
Kafka is a distributed publish/subscribe messaging system. It is used for real-time event processing, log aggregation, monitoring, queueing, etc. Kafka has [[Databases|database]]-like durability guarantees. It can sustain high throughput (tens of MB/sec/server).


=Subjects=
=Subjects=

Revision as of 20:26, 9 December 2021

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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.