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Apache Kafka Interview Questions and Answers with Spring Boot
6 min readFeb 15, 2025
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What is Apache Kafka, and how does it work?
Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform used for real-time data processing. It works by using producers to send messages to topics, which are stored in brokers and consumed by consumers.
What is a Kafka broker?
A Kafka broker is a server that stores and manages Kafka topics. It handles read and write requests from clients and ensures data distribution across partitions.
How do Kafka partitions work?
Kafka topics are split into partitions, allowing parallelism. Each partition is assigned to a broker, and messages within…
