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Apache Kafka is the de facto standard in event streaming platforms. Event streaming platforms reside in the broader class of Message-oriented Middleware (MoM) They offer stronger temporal guarantees and typically order-of-magnitude performance gains due to log-structured immutability. Event-Driven Architectures encompass event sourcing, eventual consistency, and CQRS concepts. Kafka is a distributed system comprising several key components: Broker nodes, producers, consumers, and ZooKeeper nodes.