devops-exercises/exercises/kafka/README.md

Apache Kafka

Kafka Exercises

Name	Topic	Objective & Instructions	Solution	Comments

Kafka Self Assessment

• Kafka 101

Kafka 101

What is Kafka?

kafka.apache.org: "Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications."

In other words, Kafka is a sort of distributed log where you can store events, read them and distribute them to different services and do it in high-scale and real-time.

What Kafka is used for?

• Real-time e-commerce
• Banking
• Health Care
• Automotive (traffic alerts, hazard alerts, ...)
• Real-time Fraud Detection

What is a "Producer" in regards to Kafka?

An application that publishes data to the Kafka cluster.

Kafka Architecture

What's in a Kafka cluster?

• Broker: a server with kafka process running on it. Such server has local storage. In a single Kafka clusters there are usually multiple brokers.