about-real-time-datas-unifying/">this blog post</a>. </p>

<h4 class="anchor-heading"><a id="uses_messaging" class="anchor-link"></a><a href="#uses_messaging">Messaging</a></h4>

Kafka works well as a replacement for a more traditional message broker.
Message brokers are used for a variety of reasons (to decouple processing from data producers, to buffer unprocessed messages, etc).
In comparison to most messaging systems Kafka has better throughput, built-in partitioning, replication, and fault-tolerance wh