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Whether to use Kafka at all is covered in another note. This one is the next step — how to name topics, how to size partitions and choose keys, how to write Producer and Consumer code. Concepts settle once you learn the…
Kafka is often called a "queue," but more precisely it is a distributed commit log. Its strengths show beyond queues. At the same time, it is overkill for a simple work queue.