Can you list the main objects and components used in Apache Kafka?

Main objects and components of Apache Kafka:

• Producer — a component that publishes (sends) messages to topics.
• Consumer — a component that reads messages from topics.
• Topic — a logical category or stream of messages where data is published.
• Partition — a section of a topic that allows parallelism and scaling.
• Broker — a Kafka server that stores data and handles requests.
• Consumer Group — a group of consumers that jointly read data from a topic, ensuring load balancing.
• Zookeeper (in older versions) — a service for coordination and management of the Kafka cluster.

These components together provide a high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant messaging system.