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Term of the week: Kafka
Term of the week
Backend & APIs
Kafka
Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform that stores events in durable, ordered logs for many services to publish, read in real time or replay.
Kafka stores events in durable, ordered, append-only logs called topics.
Side by side
TCP vs HTTP
TCP delivers a reliable stream of bytes between two programs; HTTP runs on top of it and gives those bytes meaning as requests and responses.
Read the pageTest yourself
Which term is this?
“The _____ builds concurrent systems from actors: independent units with private state that communicate only by sending each other asynchronous messages.”
- AHigh Availability
- BActor Model
- CHorizontal Scaling
- DKISS Principle
Show the answer
The answer: Actor Model
New on the shelf: 650 new and updated pages
ABACSecurity
ABAC is an authorization model that allows or denies each request by checking attributes of the user, the resource, the action and the context against policies.
Abstract ClassProgramming Fundamentals
An abstract class is a class that can't be instantiated on its own; it shares code with its subclasses and declares methods that each subclass must implement.
Actor ModelSoftware Architecture
The actor model builds concurrent systems from actors: independent units with private state that communicate only by sending each other asynchronous messages.
Application ServerBackend & APIs
An application server is software that runs an application's code and business logic, turning requests into dynamic responses, usually behind a web server.
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