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What is kafka?

A distributed system designed for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. It uses a partitioned, replicated commit log architecture to handle trillions of events per day with high fault tolerance.

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JavaDatabase & Storage

Why kafka?

  • • Extreme scalability
  • • High fault tolerance
  • • Massive ecosystem support

Limitations

  • • High operational complexity
  • • Significant resource overhead
  • • Steep learning curve
3/15/2026
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