Kafka Introduction

Introduction

This is an introduction to Kafka which describes itself as a messaging system

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Terms

• Log shipping is the process of automating the backup of transaction log files on a primary (production) database server, and then restoring them onto a standby server.
• Message Broker is an intermediary computer program module that translates a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to the formal messaging protocol of the receiver