Kafka Explained: Architecture, Producers, Consumers and Best Practices

Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash 🎯 What is Kafka? Official definition: A distributed streaming platform for publishing, subscribing to, storing, and processing streams of events in real time. In practical terms: Kafka is a distributed messaging system that: Handles millions of events per second Stores events durably Allows multiple independent consumers Guarantees ordering within…