Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source event-streaming platform that enables the building of real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. As a highly scalable and fault-tolerant messaging system, Apache Kafka is widely adopted in the tech community for handling large volumes of data across distributed systems, making it a crucial tool for big data processing, analytics, and cloud-native applications.

Apache Kafka

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