Apache Kafka Deep Dive: Core Concepts, Data Engineering Applications, and Real-World Production Practices

Apache Kafka Deep Dive: Core Concepts, Data Engineering Applications, and Real-World Production Practices

Apache Kafka – a distributed streaming platform widely used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming application. It was originally developed at Linkedn and open sourced in 2011. Architecture 1.Brokers: server component responsible for storing, replicating, and serving data streams to clients. 2.Kafka cluster: Group of brokers working together, with each broker independently managing partitions of topics. They can be scaled horizontal…