data streaming

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:

• Why does Kafka need Zookeeper?
• Kafka Design
• Partitioning
• Data Replication