Kafka Basics: Theory and Python Examples

Apache Kafka is a distributed platform for handling real‑time event streams. It provides three main capabilities: Publish and subscribe to streams of events. Store those streams durably and reliably for as long as needed. Process streams of events as they occur or later. Events, Producers, and Consumers An event (or record/message) captures that “something happened” in your system. Client applications that write events are called producers, while those that read events are consumers.