Apache Kafka — an event streaming platform
#kafka #streaming #events
Kafka implements event streaming concept — when an event source (
producer) like DB, sensors, mobile devices, cloud services produces ANY type of events and send them in real-time to a
consumer. Conceptually, Kafka is a log-oriented store for events, each holding a singular key/value pair. The store is commonly partitioned, and the partition for an event is typically chosen based on the key's value (computed by a hash function).
Kafka is a distributed system consisting of servers and clients.
Servers provide pre-built brokers for various systems to export, for example, logs, metrics and other telemetry from your app to the database of your choice.
Clients allow you to write distributed applications and microservices that read, write, and process streams of events in parallel. Clients are shipped with community-developed libraries written in Go, Python, Java, C/C++ and many other as well as REST APIs.
https://kafka.apache.org/
