Web Servers & Middleware

Kafka

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Overview

A distributed messaging system that handles large volumes of event data in real time.

Details

A messaging system designed as a high-throughput distributed log, used as the core of event-driven architectures. Unlike a typical message queue, it works as a persistent log: consuming a message doesn't delete it -- messages stay on disk for a configured retention period, so a new consumer group can be added later and reprocess history that's already been read.

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