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Terminologies in Kafka:

Producer: An application which publishes or writes data to kafka.

Consumer : An application that receives data from kafka.

Broker: A kafka server (Broker/Agent for the messages/data between producer and consumer)

Cluster: A group of computers/brokers connected together.

Topic: A name for a kafka stream.

Partition: A part of a topic.

Offset: Unique ID for a message within a partition.

Consumer Group: A group of consumers acting as a single logical unit.