This section introduces you to Kafka architecture. By the end of this section, you will have a clear understanding of both the logical and physical architecture of Kafka. Let's see how Kafka components are organized logically.
Every message in Kafka topics is a collection of bytes. This collection is represented as an array. Producers are the applications that store information in Kafka queues. They send messages to Kafka topics that can store all types of messages. Every topic is further differentiated into partitions. Each partition stores messages in the sequence in which they arrive. There are two major operations that producers/consumers can perform in Kafka. Producers append to the end of the write-ahead log files. Consumers fetch messages from these log files belonging to a given topic partition. Physically, each topic is spread over different...
