Tag kafka

kafka message broker

Kafka Broker

A Kafka broker serves as Kafka's storage layer, storing records as immutable bytes and handling requests from producers and consumers.

Kafka Consumer

Kafka consumers, belonging to consumer groups, read and deserialize messages from topics. They commit offsets to track processed messages.

Kafka Producer

Kafka Producer sends messages in batches to Kafka with parameters dictating acknowledgment levels, retries and serialization settings.