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Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform for real-time data processing, enabling high-throughput messaging between producers and consumers.
Localhost (127.0.0.1) is a reserved domain name (basically a nickname) that always points back to your own machine.
Sharding splits a database into smaller, independent shards, while partitioning organizes data within one database.
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