An Introduction to Kafka: Architecture, Core Components, Service Governance, Performance Optimizations, and Installation Guide
Kafka is a high‑throughput distributed publish‑subscribe system that uses brokers, topics, partitions, offsets, producers, consumers, and Zookeeper for metadata and leader election, offering fast sequential disk writes, page‑cache zero‑copy transfers, ISR‑based replication, and includes step‑by‑step installation of JDK, Zookeeper, and Kafka.
