Streams concepts
Streams is a publish/subscribe (pub/sub) messaging service where the senders of messages are decoupled from the receivers of messages.
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Streams general concepts
There are several key concepts in a pub/sub service:
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Message | The data that transits through the service. |
| Topic | An entity that represents a feed of messages. |
| Publisher | Creates messages and send them in a topic. |
| Subscriber | Subscribes to a topic to receive published messages. |
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