Apache Kafka is a publish-subscribe messaging system rethought as a distributed commit log. Kafka serves as the central repository for data streams in a distributed system. Guozhang Wang is an engineer at Confluent, which offers a stream data platform built using Kafka. Questions include: What is a central repository for data streams? How does Kafka improve transportation between systems? How does Kafka allow for richer analytical processing? What are the rolesContinue reading...