Apache Kafka: a replicated log with producers and consumers

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Apache Kafka architecture: producers send records to the leader broker of a partition with acknowledgements; KRaft controllers hold cluster metadata and tell the broker about it; the leader replicates the partition to follower brokers in the in-sync replica set; and a consumer group, Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams all fetch from the log.