What is Apache Kafka®?

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed streaming system used for stream processing, real-time data pipelines, and data integration at scale. Originally created to handle real-time data feeds at LinkedIn in 2011, Kafka quickly evolved from a messaging queue to a full-fledged event streaming platform, capable of handling over one million messages per second, or trillions of messages per day.

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