Apache Kafka

Kafka Protocol, AsyncAPI, and Event‑Driven Architecture: A Practical Guide If you’re building reactive, loosely-coupled systems, you’ll encounter three recurring themes: event-driven architecture (EDA), Apache Kafka, and AsyncAPI. This article ties them together. We’ll start with EDA fundamentals, peek under Kafka’s hood (protocol, delivery semantics, consumer groups), and show how AsyncAPI helps you design and govern your event contracts—backed by code examples you can run. Why Event‑Driven Architecture? Event-driven architecture is an approach where services communicate by publishing and consuming events (facts about things that happened), instead of making synchronous calls. ...

Apache Kafka: A Practical Guide for Developers If you build data-intensive systems, you’ve likely heard of Apache Kafka—a distributed platform for high-throughput, low-latency, fault-tolerant event streaming. This article covers Kafka’s core concepts from topics and partitions to producer/consumer mechanics, leader election, replication, discovery, and the evolution from ZooKeeper to KRaft. It’s written for intermediate developers who want clear, practical explanations with a few code examples. Note: You wrote “KafkaE”; this article assumes Apache Kafka. ...