Kafka Topics

The kafka topic is a category or a common name used to store and publish of stream of messages/data. Basically, data or messages stores in topics and messages are sent to specific topic and read from specific topic. Each topic has a name that should be unique across the entire Kafka cluster.

A topic can be splited into several parts which are known as the partitions of the topic. We need to specify the number of partitions while creating a topic. The message/data stored into a partition with an incremental id known as its Offset value.

1. The kafka topic is a category used to store and publish of messages/data.

2. Each topic has a name that should be unique across the entire Kafka cluster.

3. A topic can be splited into several parts which are known as the partitions of the topic.

4. We need to specify the number of partitions during creating a topic.

5. The message stored into a partition with an id known as its Offset value.

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Create Topic in Command Prompt

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