Events vs Messages vs Streams — Roadmap Step & Resources
Clarifying terms that get used inconsistently across the industry
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Streaming & Real-Time Data Engineering
Before this step
Study resources
- Confluent Documentation (Article) — Documentation from Confluent, the company founded by Kafka's creators, covering Kafka and the surrounding ecosystem. Background reading/viewing for: Events vs Messages vs Streams.
- Confluent Developer (Video) — Confluent's official learning platform, covering event-driven architecture fundamentals. Relevant to: Events vs Messages vs Streams.
Part of
- Event-Driven Architecture Basics — section
- Streaming & Real-Time Data Engineering roadmap — the full learning path