Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is a [distributed] [streaming-processing] platform. What exactly does that mean? A streaming platform has three key capabilities:

• [publish-subscribe] to streams of records, similar to a message queue or enterprise messaging system.
• Store streams of records in a fault-tolerant durable way.
• Process streams of records as they occur.

Kafka is generally used for two broad classes of applications:

• Building real-time streaming [data-pipeline] that reliably get data between systems or applications
• Building real-time streaming applications that transform or react to the streams of data

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