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Basic Terminologies in Kafka.. - abhishek_acharya - 12-22-2022
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.