Apache kafka

• decoupling of data streams and systems
• for a single company or system we have source system and the target system client side and the server side
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the format is :

real world events( iot , insurances , logistics shipping ) -> producer(application that we write ) -> kafka cluster( made up of brokers)

brokers can be anything (container , vms , machines ) with their own local storage

glossary terms: * producer: * consumer: * broker: * topic: * zookeper:

topic:

topic partition and segments