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<p>To understand how Kafka does these things, let's dive in and explore Kafka's capabilities from the bottom up.</p> |
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<p>First a few concepts:</p> |
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<ul> |
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<li>Kafka is run as a cluster on one or more servers that can span multiple datacenters. |
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<li>Kafka runs as a cluster on one or more servers that can span multiple datacenters. |
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<li>The Kafka cluster stores streams of <i>records</i> in categories called <i>topics</i>. |
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<li>Each record consists of a key, a value, and a timestamp. |
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</ul> |
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