Technology

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is the open-source distributed event streaming platform: it handles high-throughput, fault-tolerant data feeds for real-time applications.

Kafka is your core event streaming platform, engineered for massive scale and low latency (as low as 2ms). Originally developed at LinkedIn and open-sourced in 2011, it functions as a distributed, partitioned commit log (topics) for publishing and subscribing to streams of records. The system is highly fault-tolerant and horizontally scalable, supporting clusters with thousands of brokers and processing trillions of messages daily. Key components include the Producer, Consumer, Streams, and Connect APIs, enabling everything from simple data pipelines to complex stream processing. Over 80% of Fortune 100 companies trust Kafka for mission-critical use cases (e.g., real-time analytics, event-driven architectures).