Apache Kafka architecture In this section, we will examine the architectural components and related terminology in Kafka. Basically, Kafka consists of the following components: ...

In particular, the Kafka architecture is explicitly designed to be distributed across a large number of nodes, capable of dealing with large data backlogs, and oriented toward streaming real-time data ...

New Designs Using Apache Kafka and MapR Streams Life happens as a continuous flow of events (a stream). Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman describe new ...