Kafka with Go Part 1 — Understanding Async Systems, Distributed Architecture, and Your First Kafka Publisher/Subscriber

Introduction Modern web applications are no longer just simple static websites. Years ago, many websites were mostly: static pages blogs content websites simple request-response applications But modern software systems are very different. Today’s applications do things like: video uploads realtime notifications analytics processing AI inference payment processing image optimization email delivery realtime chat activity tracking stream processing Modern backend systems are now closer to continuou