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Kafka, Explained Simply (Part 1): Where It Actually Fits in a Real App

Oct 28, 2026•Venkata Lokesh P

What Kafka actually does inside a real app, in plain English with a concrete order-status example: producers, topics, partitions, and consumer groups explained simply.

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Kafka, Explained Simply (Part 2): The Internals Everyone Asks About

Oct 28, 2026•Venkata Lokesh P

Kafka's internals explained simply: brokers, the append-only log, leader/follower replication, offsets, at-least-once delivery, dead letter queues, and hot partitions.

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