Kafka and the Processes

Kafka, better known as Apache Kafka, is technology originally developed at LinkedIn, open sourced in 2011. and from 2014. developed by newly created company Confluent.It's basically message broker system focusing on scalability, high throughput, fault tolerance and low latency. This presentation aims to show basic concepts behind Kafka and consider some use case scenarios. We 'll also see small demonstration which is used to visualize message consummation process with focus on consumer groups also called "logical consumers" and how Kafka re-balances messages between consumer nodes in case of adding/removing nodes or node crash/recover scenario.