We have come to the end of this chapter, and by now you should have a basic understanding of the Kafka messaging system. An important aspect of mastering any system is that you should understand the system end to end at a high level first. This will put you in a better position when you understand individual components of the system in detail. You can always establish the logical connection with end-to-end system understanding and understand why individual components are designed in a particular way. In this chapter, our goal was the same.
We started by discovering why Kafka was built in the first place. We have put forward problems in LinkedIn systems that led to the creation of Kafka. That section will give you a very clear understanding of the types of problem that Kafka can solve.
We further covered Kafka's logical and system architecture. Putting Kafka architecture...