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All about Kafka

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

CHAPTER

Introduction to Kafka and its Use Cases

This chapter introduces Kafka from a beginner's perspective and discusses its use cases, including serving as a distributed data source, a message broker for event-driven architectures, and a database for data pipelines. It explores the need for decoupling services and using message brokers to enable scalability and independent scaling and failure.

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