Arsiitektur Kafka terdiri saka klaster broker (server) sing nyimpan topik sing ter-partisi lan ter-replikasi, kanthi produser sing nulis lan konsumer sing maca, dikoordinasi dening manajemen metadata (sacara historis ZooKeeper, saiki KRaft). Pemahaman arsiitektur iki ngeclesi carane Kafka berfungsi minangka sistem terdistribusi.
Komponene
BROKERS → Kafka SERVERS forming a CLUSTER:
→ store topic partitions (the data); serve producers and consumers
→ a cluster of multiple brokers → distributes data and load; scales horizontally
TOPICS / PARTITIONS → topics split into partitions, distributed across brokers
PRODUCERS → write events to topics (to partition leaders)
CONSUMERS (in groups) → read events from partitions
COORDINATION → metadata, cluster state, leader election:
→ historically ZOOKEEPER; now KRAFT (Kafka's own built-in consensus, removing ZooKeeper)
