Streaming systems - Part 1

This document discusses streaming systems and Kafka. It defines key concepts like events, streams, and message queues. Events represent things that happen and can include sensor data. Streams are an element-by-element view of data over time. Message queues support processing streaming data and provide loose coupling and scalability. Kafka is presented as a popular streaming platform, with topics to represent streams, partitions to scale data, and producers and consumers to write and read messages.