Sahan Serasinghe • 1/3/2023

Basics of Apache Kafka - An Overview

This article provides a high-level introduction to Apache Kafka, an open-source distributed event streaming platform. It explains Kafka's purpose for building real-time data pipelines, contrasts it with traditional message queues, and outlines key benefits like scalability, fault-tolerance, and real-time processing. It also illustrates how Kafka can decouple complex system architectures.

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#distributed systems #Data Pipelines #Real Time Processing