Common Concepts

Topic
A same type of messages maintained by Kafka.
Partition
One topic can be divided into multiple partitions, and each partition corresponds to an appendant and log file whose sequence is fixed.
Producer
Role in a Kafka topic to which messages are sent.
Consumer
Role that obtains messages from Kafka topics.
Broker
A node server in a Kafka cluster.

Parent topic: Overview

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