Kafka Server/Broker:A Kafka cluster consists of one or more servers (Kafka brokers), which are
running Kafka.
Kafka Topic:A topic is a feed name to which messages are stored and published. Messages are
byte arrays that can store any object in any format. As said before, all Kafka messages are
organized into topics. If you wish to send a message, then you send it to a specic topic and if
you wish to read a message, then you read it from a specic topic. Producer applications write
data to topics and consumer applications read from topics. Messages published to the cluster
will stay in the cluster until a congurable ...
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