messaging

Apache Kafka

Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform used to handle large volumes of real-time data. It is designed for scalability, durability, and high throughput.

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Key Concepts

Topics store streams of events.

Producers write data to topics.

Consumers read data from topics.

Partitioning allows horizontal scaling.

Common Interview Questions

What is Kafka?

What is the difference between Kafka and RabbitMQ?

What is a Kafka topic?

Use Case

Use Kafka for high-throughput event streaming and real-time data pipelines.

Common Use Cases

Real-time data pipelines.

Event-driven architectures.

Log aggregation and stream processing.

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