DZone·4yGet Started With Kafka and Docker in 20 Minutes
Kafka runs on the platform of your choice, such as Kubernetes or ECS, as a cluster of one or more Kafka nodes. A Kafka cluster will be initialized with zero or more topics, which you can think of as message channels or queues. Create the Dockerfile alongside the other three files that were just created and add the following: Dockerfile. Save and close. Subsequent commands will be run in this folder.
Analytics Vidhya·4yApache Kafka Architecture and Use Cases Explained
Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. It has a full queue that can accept large amounts of message data. Kafka is used by big internet companies like LinkedIn, Twitter, Airbnb, and many others. This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon.
Stack Overflow Blog·4yEvent-Driven Topic Design using Kafka
Kafka is an event-driven architecture that allows low coupling between services. One service produces to a topic, while other services consume from the topic. Messages are only deleted by compaction or retention settings (e.g. delete any message that’s older than seven days)—they aren’t deleted manually.