Kafka terminologies

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• Broker:A kafka server (Broker/Agent) for the messages/data
  
• Cluster: A group of computers/brokers connected together
  
• Topic: A name for the kafka stream
  
• Partition: A part of a topic
  
• Offset: Unique ID for a message within a partition,keeps a track of number of data elements retrived by each component.