The following diagram illustrates the architectural components in Kafka – a high level view. Apache FOUNDATION. A topic in Kafka represents a logical collection of messages.

Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform built with a broker-based architecture. It maintains a cluster of servers (brokers) that store streams of records in categories called topics[1]. Kafka ...

This detailed analysis compares Apache Kafka and ZeroMQ, two powerful but fundamentally different messaging systems used in distributed computing. While both technologies enable communication between ...