12 Best Practices For Using Kafka In Your Architecture

Key lessons I have learned While Using Kafka

Apache Kafka, also known as Kafka, is an enterprise-level messaging and streaming broker system. Kafka is a great technology to use to architect and build real-time data pipelines and streaming applications.

I highly recommend the architects to familiarise themselves with the Kafka ecosystem, in particular on the concepts of Kafka cluster, broker, topics, partitions, consumer, producer and offsets.

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This article will highlight 12 of the important lessons I have learned whilst using Kafka.

1. To enable parallel processing of messages, create multiple partitions in a topic. This enables multiple consumers to process the messages in parallel. Each partition can be consumed by only one consumer within a consumer group. So, if there are multiple consumers in a consumer group, they can consume messages from different partitions. Therefore, if we want to parallelize the…