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Can you list the main types of abstractions used in Kafka?
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Answer from AI
The main abstractions in Apache Kafka are:
- Topic — a logical category or channel name where messages are published.
- Partition — a physical part of a topic that stores a sequence of messages. A topic is divided into multiple partitions for scalability and parallelism.
- Producer — a component that publishes messages to a topic.
- Consumer — a component that reads messages from a topic.
- Consumer Group — a group of consumers that jointly read messages from a topic, ensuring load balancing.
- Broker — a Kafka server that stores data and handles requests.
- Offset — a unique identifier of a message's position within a partition, used to track read messages.
These abstractions enable the organization of a reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant messaging system.