In Kafka, topics are (partitioned) streams of messages. Consumers of a topic keep track of their "cursor" in that stream. EDIT: should add that morkbot had a

In Kafka, topics are (partitioned) streams of messages. Consumers of a topic keep track of their "cursor" in that stream. EDIT: should add that morkbot had a great link too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6874607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6874607 http://www.quora.com/RabbitMQ/RabbitMQ-vs-Kafka-which-one-for-durable-messaging-with-good-query-features?share=1 http://www.quora.com/RabbitMQ/RabbitMQ-vs-Kafka-which-one-fo...