A Brief Introduction to Apache Kafka

A little overview of the Apache Kafka platform

Dario De Santis
Javarevisited
Published in
7 min readJul 22, 2020

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During the last years, technologies for building real-time data pipelines and event streaming apps have emerged, promoting also the horizontal scalability and the fault tolerance of a system. One of these technologies is Apache Kafka.

Introduction

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Dario De Santis
Javarevisited

Software Architect, writing about Java, Spring, Microservices, Kubernetes and Cloud-native programming. Editor for Javarevisited.