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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. ...