CWCHIRAG WADHWAinchiragwadhwa.hashnode.dev·May 26, 2025 · 3 min readHow Apache Kafka Works Under the HoodAt first glance, Kafka might seem like just another messaging queue, but beneath the surface, it’s a highly optimized, high-performance distributed system designed for real-time data processing. In this blog—the first in a deep-dive series—I’ll share...00