Building Systems with Transactions Using Apache Kafka | Confluent
Aug 20, 2019Michael Seifert
Summary
This post details how to build event-based architectures that retain transactional properties similar to RDBMS by leveraging Apache Kafka, focusing on atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. It discusses event modeling, API consistency, and idempotent event processing to achieve transactional guarantees in a distributed system.
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