Daily Term: Kafka

Kafka

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform designed for high-throughput, fault-tolerant messaging. It uses a publish-subscribe model where producers write messages to topics, and consumers read from them. Kafka stores messages as logs, enabling real-time and batch processing for use cases like event streaming, log aggregation, and data pipelines. Its distributed nature ensures scalability, but managing clusters and ensuring message ordering can be complex.

Date: 2025-06-12