Apache Kafka Core Knowledge Deep Knowledge : Use with technology: for comprehensive documentation. Quick Start (Docker) Core Concepts | Concept | Description | |---------|-------------| | Topic | Named stream of records, append-only log | | Partition | Ordered, immutable sequence within topic | | Offset | Unique ID for record within partition | | Consumer Group | Set of consumers sharing topic consumption | | Broker | Kafka server handling storage and requests | | Replication Factor | Number of partition copies across brokers | Architecture Producer Patterns Node.js (kafkajs) Java (Spring Kaf…