Explain the core components of Kafka architecture.

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Kafka architecture consists of several key components:

Producer: Applications that publish (write) events to Kafka topics
Consumer: Applications that subscribe to (read) events from topics
Broker: Kafka servers that store data and serve client requests
Topic: Categories or feed names to which records are published
Partition: Sub-divisions of topics for parallelism and scalability
Zookeeper: Coordinates and manages Kafka cluster metadata (being replaced by KRaft)

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