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Kafka

A distributed event-streaming platform organized around durable ordered logs called topics/partitions.

Kafka

A distributed event-streaming platform organized around durable ordered logs called topics/partitions.

Smart-city relevance: Often used for high-volume city data pipelines, analytics, and integration rather than directly on tiny field devices.

Related: Event streaming

Messaging, MQTT, and Publish/Subscribe Protocols · Source page 25

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