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Apache Kafka

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Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform, built at LinkedIn beginning around 2010 and 2011 by a team including Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao before the project moved to the Apache Software Foundation. It is designed for unified, high-throughput, low-latency handling of real-time data feeds, organizing records into durable, replicated logs called topics that many independent consumers can read at their own pace. Kafka became a standard piece of infrastructure for event-driven architectures, powering everything from activity tracking to real-time analytics pipelines at large-scale internet companies. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Year
2011 1
Significance
A distributed event-streaming platform built at LinkedIn for high-throughput, low-latency handling of real-time data feeds. 1
Status
Status
Active / In Use 1
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License
Apache License 2.0 2
FAQs

Why is Apache Kafka named after Franz Kafka?

Jay Kreps named it after the author because it is a system optimized for writing, and he liked his work.

Jay Kreps, one of the people who helped co-create Kafka at LinkedIn, chose the name. He picked the author Franz Kafka because Kafka is described as a system optimized for writing, and he liked the author's work.
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LinkedIn

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1. Wikipedia: Apache Kafka
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    Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform. It is an open-source system developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Java and Scala.
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    Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform.
  • In Group: Distributed Data Processing Infrastructure, Lead
    Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform.
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2. Wikidata: Apache Kafka
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  • Wikidata Q16235208 P275 (license)
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