2 Kafka brokers
This chapter covers
- Explaining how the Kafka broker is the storage layer in the Kafka event streaming platform
- Describing how Kafka brokers handle requests from clients for writing and reading records
- Understanding topics and partitions
- Using JMX metrics to check for a healthy broker
In chapter 1, I provided an overall view of the Kafka event streaming platform and the different components that make up the platform. This chapter will focus on the system’s heart, the Kafka broker. The Kafka broker is the server in the Kafka architecture and serves as the storage layer.
In describing the broker behavior in this chapter, we’ll get into some lower-level details. It’s essential to cover them to give you an understanding of ...
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