Nikolas Karavias nkaravias

## kafka.md

      
        
          
            
              
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                kafka introduction
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    Introduction to Kafka

Kafka acts as a kind of write-ahead log (WAL) that records messages to a persistent store (disk) and allows subscribers to read and apply these changes to their own stores in a system appropriate time-frame.
Terminology:

Producers send messages to brokers
Consumers read messages from brokers
Messages are sent to a topic