Kafka Topic Architecture
Kafka Topic Architecture - Replication, Failover and Parallel Processing This article covers some lower level details of Kafka topic architecture. It is a continuation of the Kafka Architecture article. This article covers Kafka Topic’s Architecture with a discussion of how partitions are used for fail-over and parallel processing. Kafka Topics, Logs, Partitions Recall that a Kafka topic is a named stream of records. Kafka stores topics in logs. A topic log is broken up into partitions.