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List the components of an Apache Kafka cluster.

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Main components of an Apache Kafka cluster:

  • Broker — a server that stores and transmits messages.
  • Topic — a logical category or channel where messages are published.
  • Partition — a division of a topic for parallel processing and scaling.
  • Producer — a client that publishes messages to topics.
  • Consumer — a client that reads messages from topics.
  • Consumer Group — a group of consumers that jointly read data from a topic, distributing the load.
  • Zookeeper (in the classic architecture) — a service for coordination and management of the cluster (in newer Kafka versions, it may use its own mechanism).

These components provide a reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant messaging system.