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Kafka - Internals

In this series, we will understand the internals of Kafka.

Apache Kafka Internals - Part 1: Architecture, Topics, Partitions and Brokers
We all have heard about Kafka at one time or the other during backend engineering journey and we have all thought, what is Kafka? Apache Kafka is often described as a distributed messaging system. Whi
Aug 15, 20268 min read28
Apache Kafka Internals - Part 2: How Kafka Stores Data : Segments, Indexes and Offsets
In Part 1, we established an important mental model: A Kafka topic is divided into partitions, and each partition is an ordered, append-only log. But this raises a deeper question: What does that lo
Aug 18, 20269 min read16