After months of testing efforts and seven voting rounds, Apache Kafka 0.10.0 and the corresponding Confluent Platform 3.0 have been finally released, cheers!
Adding queue support to Kafka opens up a world of new possibilities for users, making Kafka even more versatile. By combining the strengths of traditional queue systems with Kafka’s robust log-based architecture, customers now have a solution that can handle both streaming and queue processing.
Confluent launches the general availability of a new JavaScript client for Apache Kafka®, a fully supported Kafka client for JavaScript and TypeScript programmers in Node.js environments.