Understanding Kafka Topics and Partitions

Date: 2023-10-05

Apache Kafka is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, stream-processing platform using a publish-subscribe model. Data producers publish messages to topics, which are divided into partitions for parallel processing across a Kafka cluster. Consumers, organized into groups, subscribe to topics and read from different partitions concurrently. The article details Kafka's architecture, including topics, partitions, and consumer groups, and demonstrates its integration with Spring Boot for building real-time data streaming applications. A Spring Boot example shows how to create a producer and consumer to send and receive messages.

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