Deep driving into Confluent architecture

In this section, we will discuss the architecture of Confluent Platform and its components in detail. The Confluent Platform provides you with underlying built-in Connectors and components that help you focus on the business use case and how to get value out of it. It takes care of the integration of data from multiple sources and its consumption by the target system. The Confluent Platform provides a trusted way of securing, monitoring, and managing the entire Kafka cluster infrastructure. Let's talk about its components one-by-one.

The following image will give a concise idea of the Confluent architecture:

Confluent architecture 

In the preceding figure, we can see the three colored components. ...

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