Becoming Familiar with Apache Kafka and Message Queues

An overview of how Kafka works, as well as equivalent message brokers.

Todd Birchard
Hackers and Slackers
6 min readMay 4, 2019

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Data engineering technology stacks have a relatively sizeable amount of variance across companies. Depending on the skills and languages preferred by a company’s developers, a data stack might be anything between a heavily Java shop, or a Python shop…

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Todd Birchard
Hackers and Slackers

Software engineer with background in Data & Product Management background. Does everything incorrectly before coming to realizations known as best practices.