The real art behind a server is in its configuration. In this section, we will examine how to deal with the basic configuration of a Kafka broker in standalone mode. Since we are learning, at the moment, we will not review the cluster configuration.
As we can suppose, there are two types of configuration: standalone and cluster. The real power of Kafka is unlocked when running with replication in cluster mode and all topics are correctly partitioned.
The cluster mode has two main advantages: parallelism and redundancy. Parallelism is the capacity to run tasks simultaneously among the cluster members. The redundancy warrants that, when a Kafka node goes down, the cluster is safe and accessible from the other running nodes. ...
