Kafka Core Concepts: Brokers, Topics
Understand the fundamental building blocks of Kafka: brokers, topics, and their roles in data storage and distribution.
Intro to Kafka's Core
Let's meet Kafka's two fundamental building blocks: brokers and topics. These are how Kafka stores and organizes your data streams.
Meet the Kafka Broker
A Kafka broker is a single server running Kafka. It receives messages from producers, stores them on disk, and serves them to consumers — the engine of it all.
All lessons in this course
- What is Apache Kafka?
- Kafka Core Concepts: Brokers, Topics
- Setting Up Kafka Locally
- The Commit Log: How Kafka Stores Data