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Developed as a publish-subscribe messaging system to handle mass amounts of data at LinkedIn, today, Apache Kafka® is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by over 80% of the Fortune 100.
There are several ways to view Event Streaming. This page relates Kafka to other technology trends you may be familier with.
See how Apache Kafka®’s architecture has been greatly simplified by the introduction of Apache Kafka Raft (KRaft).
How Kafka's transactions provide you with accurate, repeatable results from chains of many stream processors or microservices, connected via event streams.
What is a stream? A topic? A partition? Learn the core fundamentals of Kafka's storage and processing layers, and how they are related.
Benchmark testing and results for Apache Kafka’s performance on the latest hardware in the cloud.
Confluent Cloud takes Apache Kafka to a whole new level. Learn how serverless infrastructure is built and apply these learnings to your own projects.
Streaming database systems for an "always-on" world, where data never rests.
Learn about building a data mesh on event streams with Apache Kafka® and Confluent.
Learn about the ecosystem of tools for testing your Apache Kafka® applications.
Explore the details of how Kafka works and how to monitor its performance. Click on an element to learn more.
Here are some of the questions that you may have about Apache Kafka and its surrounding ecosystem. If you’ve got a question that isn’t answered here then please do ask the community.
