How Kafka Works - Summary
In this section we learned:
- A Kafka Broker is an individual Kafka server
- A Kafka Cluster is a group of Kafka Brokers
- Kafka uses Zookeeper to elect topic leaders and store its own configuration
- Kafka writes log files to disk on the Kafka brokers themselves
- How Kafka achieves scale and parallelism with topic partitions
- How Kafka provides resiliency and helps prevent data loss with data replication
How Kafka Works - Further Research
You might be interested in optional reading about some of these related topics, which are beyond the scope of this course:
