Architecture: Kafka

Every time you place an order, stream a video, or tap a payment terminal, dozens of systems need to know about it — simultaneously, reliably, in order. Getting data from where it's produced to where it needs to be processed, at scale, without losing anything, is one of the hardest problems in distributed systems. Apache Kafka was built specifically to solve it. Kafka is now the backbone of real-time data infrastructure at most large technolog… Read More