Today we are going to be talking about message delivery semantics in Apache Kafka. Since interactions using Kafka are mostly asynchronous there are no direct connections between client and server. Moreover, there are no clients and servers of their usual meaning at all. Apache Kafka serves as an intermediate asynchronous...
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Increasing reliability/durability of Apache Kafka
What comes to your mind when you hear the term “Distributed Messaging”? Well, not even that, let’s paraphrase: What are your expectations concerning the messaging in distributed systems? I suppose that “reliability” will occupy one of the top positions in the list of answers. What sense do we put into...
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