Azure’s Cobalt 100 is built on Microsoft’s first-generation, in-house Arm-based processor: the Cobalt 100. Designed entirely by Microsoft and based on Arm’s Neoverse N2 architecture, this 64-bit CPU delivers improved performance and energy efficiency across a broad spectrum of cloud-native, scale-out Linux workloads. These include web and application servers, data analytics, open-source databases, caching systems, and more. Running at 3.4 GHz, the Cobalt 100 processor allocates a dedicated physical core for each virtual CPU (vCPU), ensuring consistent and predictable performance.
To learn more about Cobalt 100, refer to the blog Announcing the preview of new Azure virtual machine based on the Azure Cobalt 100 processor .
Apache Kafka is a high-performance, open-source distributed event streaming platform designed for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications.
It allows you to publish, subscribe to, store, and process streams of records in a fault-tolerant and scalable manner. Kafka stores data in topics, which are partitioned and replicated across a cluster to ensure durability and high availability.
Kafka is widely used for messaging, log aggregation, event sourcing, real-time analytics, and integrating large-scale data systems. Learn more from the Apache Kafka official website and the Apache Kafka documentation .