Apache Kafka Topics: Architecture and Partitions

What Is a Kafka Topic? A Kafka topic is essentially a named stream of records. Kafka stores topics in logs. However, a topic log in Apache Kafka is broken up into several partitions. And, further, Kafka spreads those log's partitions across multiple servers or disks. In other words, we can say a topic in Kafka is a category, stream name, or a feed. In addition, we can say topics in Apache Kafka are a pub-sub style of messaging. Moreover, there can be zero to many subscribers called Kafka consumer groups in a Kafka topic. Basically, these topics in Kafka are broken up into partitions for speed, scalability, as well as size.

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