Azure Event Hubs with Kafka

Azure Event Hubs is a managed ingestion service that is simple to use for provision and integration with applications. It is very powerful and can quickly handle millions of messages per a second. It also supports the Kafka protocol, which is why client applications that currently rely on Kafka for message broker scenarios can easily shift to Azure Event Hubs without changing their application code.

What is Kafka?

Kafka is an open source software that works on a pub/sub model for storing and reading messages. Kafka persists messages/events published by publishers in a storage method known as topics, and consumers can read/consume those messages by registering to those topics.

Kafka can handle a high velocity and volume of data and serves the user like a high-speed filesystem for commit-log storage. Based on its characteristics, it helps to build large-scale applications that primarily rely on message broker techniques for service-to-service communications...