Kafka Basics and Core Concepts: Explained

Written by aritra | Published 2021/01/17
Tech Story Tags: distributed-systems | kafka | message-queue | event-streaming | scaling | fault-tolerance | pubsub | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR Kafka Basics and Core Concepts: Explained by aritra Aritra Das Full Stack Developer. Kafka is a Distributed Streaming Platform or Distributed Commit Log. Kafka works as a cluster of one or more nodes that can live in different Datacenters. It is inherently scalable, available, and fault-tolerant. Kafka stores data as a stream of continuous records which can be processed in different methods. Kafka can be used as a FIFO queue, as a Pub/ Sub messaging system, a real-time streaming platform, and as a Database.via the TL;DR App

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Written by aritra | Full Stack Developer | ❤ Distributed Systems | ❤ Open source
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/01/17