DumbKafka Simple kafka implementation for dumb people Kafka White Paper https://notes.stephenholiday.com/Kafka.pdf Units Producers Brokers Topics Partitions Segments Consumers Features Rebalancing Offset recovery Q. Do we need a zookeeper equivalent? Resources https://medium.com/techmintmedia/kafka-internal-working-mechanism-335d47bc471a#:~:text=Kafka%20depends%20on%20Operating%20system,then%20it%20writes%20to%20disk.