Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that enables producers and consumers to create, manage, and consume messages as they flow through the system. Kafka is widely adopted for both online streaming data and also for buffering messages in an event-driven architecture.
Kafka stores messages in a topic-based structure. Producers write messages to a Kafka topic, and consumers read messages from a Kafka topic. Topics are partitioned and distributed across a Kafka cluster, so that messages are stored and replicated across …
