Learn Everything About Apache Kafka’s Architecture, Including Brokers, Kraft, Topic Partitions, Tiered Storage, Exactly Once, Kafka Connect, Kafka Schema Registry and Kafka Streams

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Apache Kafka is a distributed, fault-tolerant pub/sub messaging system built on a simple log data structure. It uses brokers for horizontal scaling, partitions for data sharding, and replication for durability. The system employs KRaft consensus for leader election and metadata management. Key features include tiered storage for cost optimization, consumer groups for parallel processing, transactions for exactly-once semantics, and ecosystem components like Kafka Streams for stream processing and Kafka Connect for system integration.

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<p>This has sparked an interest in Kafka for me, will start learning !</p>
