Event Platforms

Concepts: paEventPlatforms

What They Want to Hear 'Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform. Producers write events to topics. Each topic is split into partitions for parallel processing. Consumers read from partitions using consumer groups, where each partition is assigned to exactly one consumer in the group. The key difference from a traditional message queue: Kafka retains events after they are read, so multiple consumers can independently replay the same data.' That is the answer. Topics, partitions, consumer groups, and retention. Four concepts in four sentences. The Vocabulary to Use