AI engineering glossary · Data engineering
What is topic?
Topic: A named category or feed in a messaging system to which producers send messages and from which consumers read. In Kafka it is split into partitions that spread load and preserve order within each one.
Topic: an example
A topic called upi_payments receives every payment event, split into 12 partitions.
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Where you learn it
Topic is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.