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Design | Apache Kafka

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Motivation We designed Kafka to be able to act as a unified platform for handling all the real-time data feeds a large company might have. To do this we had to think through a fairly broad set of use cases. It would have to have high-throughput to support high volume event streams such as real-time log aggregation. It would need to deal gracefully with large data backlogs to be able to support periodic data loads from offline systems.

Motivation We designed Kafka to be able to act as a unified platform for handling all the real-time data feeds a large company might have. To do this we had to think through a fairly broad set of use cases. It would have to have high-throughput to support high volume event streams such as real-time log aggregation. It would need to deal gracefully with large data backlogs to be able to support periodic data loads from offline systems. It also meant the system would have to handle low-latency delivery to handle more traditional messaging use-cases. We wanted to support partitioned,…

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