A Gentle Introduction to Kafka API

A vendor-neutral and language-agnostic beginners guide to fundamentals of Kafka API and its information hierarchy.

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Kafka is a project that initially began within LinkedIn to build a robust, scalable message bus. It played a pivotal role in LinkedIn’s data infrastructure and was widely adopted due to its unique features and…