Big Data Technology & Architecture

Jul 9, 2021 · Big Data

Understanding Kafka: Use Cases, Reliability, Storage, Replication, Consumer Assignment, Transactions, and Exactly-Once Semantics

This article explains why Kafka is used, its buffering, decoupling, redundancy and robustness benefits, details the ack reliability levels, storage design, replica synchronization, ISR handling, consumer partition assignment strategies, transaction support, exactly‑once semantics, and why read‑write separation is not provided.