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Phase 15 · Message Queues & Event-Driven Architecture

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Apache Kafka Basics

Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.

Summary

A distributed event-streaming platform built for extremely high-throughput, durable, ordered event logs — used at large scale for event pipelines rather than simple task queues.

How to Learn This

  • 1Read a high-level overview of Kafka's topic/partition/consumer-group model.
  • 2Compare Kafka's log-based, replayable model to RabbitMQ's queue-based, consume-once model.
  • 3Recognize Kafka is usually reached for at a scale most early-stage projects haven't hit yet.

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