What Is a Bootstrap Server

A Bootstrapping Server Function (BSF) is an intermediary element in Cellular networks which provides application-independent functions for mutual authentication of user equipment and servers unknown to each other and for ‘bootstrapping’ the exchange of secret session keys afterwards.

What are bootstrap servers in Kafka?

bootstrap. servers is a comma-separated list of host and port pairs that are the addresses of the Kafka brokers in a “bootstrap” Kafka cluster that a Kafka client connects to initially to bootstrap itself. … Clients (producers or consumers) make use of all servers irrespective of which servers are specified in bootstrap.

What does Kafka run on?

Original author(s) inScala, JavaOperating systemCross-platformTypeStream processing, Message broker

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