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What is Apache Kafka?
4 min readJan 23, 2025
Introduction
Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform designed to handle real-time data feeds. Originally developed by LinkedIn and later open-sourced, Kafka is now maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. It has become a cornerstone technology for building scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance data pipelines and streaming applications.
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Key Features of Apache Kafka
- High Throughput and Low Latency: Kafka can process millions of messages per second with minimal delay, making it suitable for high-speed data processing.
- Scalability: Kafka’s distributed architecture enables horizontal scaling by adding more brokers to the cluster.
- Fault Tolerance: Data replication across brokers ensures durability and availability, even in the event of node…
