Understanding Kafka Topic Partitions
Everything in Kafka is modeled around partitions. They rule Kafka’s storage, scalability, replication, and message movement.
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Everything in Kafka revolves around partitions. They play a crucial role in structuring Kafka’s storage and the production and consumption of messages.
Understanding partitions helps you learn Kafka faster. This article walks through the concepts, structure, and behavior of Kafka’s partitions.
Events, Streams, and Kafka Topics
Before diving into partitions, we need to set the stage here. So let’s look at some high-level concepts and how they relate to partitions.
Events
An event represents a fact that happened in the past. Events are immutable and never stay in one place. They always travel from one system to another system, carrying the state changes that happened.
Streams
An event stream represents related events in motion.
