How Producers Work: Kafka Producer and Consumer Internals, Part 1

This text discusses the use of Apache Kafka, a distributed event streaming platform, in handling data production and consumption. It delves into how producers send data to Kafka brokers and how consumers fetch that data. The text also covers various configurations that affect each step of this process and the metrics used to monitor these steps. Furthermore, it introduces the new confluent-kafka-javascript client for building applications with Apache Kafka.