Design Microservices Architecture with Patterns and Principles - Apache Kafka Use Cases

The video tutorial discusses various use cases of Kafka, including messaging, metrics, log aggregation, stream processing, website activity tracking, and event sourcing. Kafka acts as a message broker to decouple services, aggregates operational data for monitoring, centralizes logs from multiple services, processes data in pipelines using frameworks like Storm and Spark, tracks website activity in real-time, and supports event-driven architectures for event sourcing.

Describe the process of log aggregation using Kafka.

What is event sourcing in the context of Kafka?