Kafka

Introduction I recently started interesting about the concept of streaming - not videos, of course - mainly because in the last months I collected several sources to be used as starting point: so, waiting for my Google Home Mini to be shipped, I decided to mix togheter two words I often see surfing the Web. The first is Kafka - that is a distributed streaming platform (ok but what exactly does that mean - for real? Be patience, I will try to introduce the tool in this article) and the second is Blockchain (I don’t like this world, believe me or not I think it’s like Big Data, in the sense that everybody knows the principles but nobody wants to deal with the maths): this two concepts have kind of similarity, I guess 🧐 I have a problem with memory, so I first talk about how Kafka works just to remind me the key concepts for the next month, because I use to forget everything I learn - d***q. ...