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Kafka in a Nutshell 🌰: Events, Topics, and APIs made simple

Majd Tarbin on September 08, 2023

Intro For many years, our default method for data storage has been databases, which have effectively served us for decades. However, in...
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Nice Kafka overview. In my experience, there is no absolute advantage of using Kafka over a DB or vice-versa. It all depends on your use case and architecture. That said, from a data Engineering POV, Kafka is often used as a stream based decoupler system that decouples Data producers from Data consumers in a data pipeline.