Kafkini temeljni koncepti uključuju topics (kategorije događaja), partitions (jedinice paralelizma unutar topica), brokers (servere), producers (pisanja) i consumers (čitanja). Razumijevanje ovih koncepata je temeljno za rad s Kafkom.
Temeljni koncepti
TOPIC → a named category/stream of events (like a "channel" — e.g. "orders", "clicks")
→ producers write to topics; consumers read from them
PARTITION → a topic is split into PARTITIONS (ordered, append-only logs):
→ the unit of PARALLELISM and scaling; events distributed across partitions
→ order is guaranteed WITHIN a partition (not across partitions)
BROKER → a Kafka SERVER (stores data, serves clients); a CLUSTER = multiple brokers
PRODUCER → writes (publishes) events to topics
CONSUMER → reads (subscribes to) events from topics
