F1 Kafka & Event-Driven Architecture

The event backbone behind notifications, analytics, and real-time pipelines

Kafka fundamentals and event-driven architecture for system design interviews. Cover topics, partitions, consumer groups, offset management, and delivery guarantees (at-least-once, exactly-once). Then connect to Meta patterns: Scribe/LogDevice as Meta's Kafka equivalent, event sourcing for notifications, click-stream pipelines for ad analytics, and CDC for cache invalidation.

Estimated time: 15 minutes

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