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Articles in this series
- Kafka Architecture - Core Concepts Kafka's throughput is a set of architectural bets.
- Producer Mechanics - Under the Hood The producer is where latency, ordering, and durability meet.
- Consumer Groups and Rebalancing Rebalancing is coordination disguised as client behavior.
- Retention and Log Compaction Retention decides whether your log is history or state.
- Transactions and Exactly-Once Semantics Exactly-once is a protocol, not a checkbox.
- Event Sourcing and CQRS with Kafka Kafka turns event history into rebuilt state.
- Stateful Stream Processing: Time, Joins and Recovery Partitions, offsets, transactions, and the trade-offs behind them.
- Kafka Pipeline Sizing and Deployment Recipes Partitions, offsets, transactions, and the trade-offs behind them.