Learn about data streaming with Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink®
High-throughput low latency distributed event streaming platform. Available locally or fully-managed via Apache Kafka on Confluent Cloud.
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What Do Kafka and Flink Do?
Learn about the fundamentals of event streaming with Kafka and Flink, and the surrounding ecosystem.
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Event Streaming
Create, import, share streams of events like payments, orders, and database changes in milliseconds, at scale. Store them as long as you need. Replay and reprocess historical data like a time machine.
Continuous Real-time Processing
Build lightweight, elastic applications and microservices that respond immediately to events and that scale during live operations. Process, join, and analyze streams and tables of data in real-time, 24x7.
Your Data, Everywhere
Use one platform to set data in motion across your entire enterprise. Connect systems, data centers, and clouds—all with the same trusted technology. The largest production deployments handle trillions of events per day.
What is Apache Kafka®?
By kafka co-creator Jay Kreps, CEO of Confluent
Design. Build. Run.
- Build Apps
- Build Pipelines
- Operate
Tutorials with Full Code Examples
Learn the basics
Step through the basics of the CLI, Kafka topics, and building applications.
Master advanced concepts
Learn how to route events, manipulate streams, aggregate data, and more.
Kafka clients
Produce to and consume from Kafka in your preferred programming language.
Get Started with Kafka Clients
Write your first application using these full code examples in Java, Python, Go, .NET, Node.js, C/C++, REST, Spring Boot, and further languages and CLIs.
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Event Streaming Patterns
A rich catalog of design patterns to help you understand the interaction between the different parts of the Kafka ecosystem, so you can build better event streaming applications.
Design patterns help you plan, implement, and communicate about software architectures. The main groups of patterns for event streaming are shown in this diagram, including compositional patterns that apply across several areas.
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Kafka Internals
Explore the details of how Kafka works and how to monitor its performance.
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