Message Bus - Kafka

Kafka is a stream processing platform which groups like-messages together, such that the number of sequential writes to disk can be increased, thus effectively increasing database speeds.

Components

The message-bus-kafka package consists of a few components, those being Kafka, Kafdrop, and Kminion.

Kafka

The core stream-processing element of the message-bus-kafka package.

Kafdrop

Kafdrop is a web user-interface for viewing Kafka topics and browsing consumer-groups.

Kminion

A prometheus exporter for Kafka.

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