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= Kafka Key Features

* Scalability and performance
** Designed for horizontal scalability
* Message ordering guarantee
** At partition level
* Message rewind/replay
** "Long term" storage
** Allows to reconstruct application state by replaying the messages
** Combined with compacted topics allows to use Kafka as key-value store
