6.1.3 - What is Kafka?

Last updated March 6 2025

🕓 Estimated time spent on this lesson | ~15 min

Youtube Video | ~11 min

✍️ In this video we learn about the structure of Kafka, which uses topics, events, logs, and messages

What is a Topic?

Topic - is a continuous stream of events. An example would be measuring a temperature every 30s in a room, so each event would occur every 30s.

Kafka layout os a Message: