Description
Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform designed for high-throughput, real-time data streaming and processing. It enables applications to publish, subscribe, store, and process streams of events in a fault-tolerant and scalable manner. Kafka is widely used in big data analytics, log aggregation, event-driven architectures, and microservices. It provides durability, replication, and horizontal scalability, ensuring reliable message delivery. With features like Kafka Streams for processing, Kafka Connect for integration, and support for multiple producers and consumers, it serves as a high-performance backbone for companies handling large-scale data pipelines, including finance, e-commerce, and IoT applications.
