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Development Environment Preparation

Kafka Introduction

Kafka is a distributed message release and subscription system. With features similar to JMS, Kafka processes active streaming data.

Kafka is applicable to message queuing, behavior tracing, operation & maintenance (O&M) data monitoring, log collection, streaming processing, event tracing, and log persistence.

Kafka features:

  • High throughput
  • Message persistence to disks
  • Scalable distributed system
  • Fault-tolerant
  • Support for online and offline scenarios

Interface Type Introduction

APIs provided by Kafka can be divided into two types: Producer API and Consumer API. Both the types of APIs contain Java API. For details, see section Java API.

Parent topic: Overview