Producers menerbitkan (menulis) events ke topic Kafka, dan consumers berlangganan (membaca) events dari topic tersebut. Memahami cara kerjanya — termasuk partitioning, offsets, dan consumer groups — adalah fundamental untuk menggunakan Kafka.
Producers — menulis events
PRODUCERS publish events to TOPICS:
→ send a record (key, value) to a topic
→ the key determines the PARTITION (same key → same partition → ordering for that key);
no key → distributed (round-robin)
→ can configure ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (acks) for durability (wait for replicas to confirm)
→ batching, compression for throughput
