Apache Kafka Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. It is designed for high throughput, fault tolerance, and scalability. Main Components 1. Producer A producer publishes (writes) events/messages to Kafka topics. Multiple producers can write to the same topic. 2. Consumer A consumer reads events from Kafka topics. Consumers can work independently or as part of a consumer group. 3. Topic A topic is a category or stream of events. Each topic is divided into partitions . Partitions allow Kafka to: Scale horizontally Process data in parallel Maintain ordering within each partition 4. Broker A broker is a Kafka server. It stores topic partitions and serves data to producers and consumers. A Kafka cluster consists of one or more brokers. Kafka APIs Kafka provides four main APIs: Producer API Allows applications to publish events to Kafka topics. Consumer API Allows applications to subscribe to topics ...