Producer

Topic

Partition

Consumer

Broker

Message Ordering

1. Ordering 2. Ordering Coding 3. Partial ordering failure recovery

DLQ

Transaction

🧩 Key Kafka concepts I understood

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Kafka Cluster & Brokers

Producers & Consumers

Topics

Partitions

Offsets

Message Keys & Partitioning

Message Ordering

Consumer Groups

Consumer Offsets & __consumer_offsets

Group Coordinator & Partition Assignment

Segments & Commit Logs

Retention Policies

Replication Factor

Partition Leaders & Followers

ISR (In-Sync Replicas)

Fault Tolerance & Broker Failures

Bootstrap Servers

ZooKeeper vs KRaft

Kafka Connect

Kafka Streams