Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and …

Kafka is a distributed system consisting of servers and clients that communicate via a high-performance TCP network protocol. It can be deployed on bare-metal hardware, virtual …

In this quickstart we’ll see how to run Kafka Connect with simple connectors that import data from a file to a Kafka topic and export data from a Kafka topic to a file.

Nov 12, 2025 · Kafka 4.1.0 includes a significant number of new features and fixes. For more information, please read our blog post, the detailed Upgrade Notes and the Release Notes.

Apache Kafka is used for both real-time and batch data processing, and is the chosen event log technology for Amadeus microservice-based streaming applications. Kafka is also used for …

Kafka abstracts away the details of files and gives a cleaner abstraction of log or event data as a stream of messages. This allows for lower-latency processing and easier support for multiple …

Dec 19, 2025 · As with publish-subscribe, Kafka allows you to broadcast messages to multiple consumer groups. The advantage of Kafka’s model is that every topic has both these …

Mar 18, 2025 · Apache Kafka 3.9.0 Release Announcement Wednesday, November 06, 2024 in Release Announcements We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.9.0. This …

Dec 19, 2025 · In this section, we describe how Kafka Streams works underneath the covers. The picture below shows the anatomy of an application that uses the Kafka Streams library.

Dec 19, 2025 · Has no external dependencies on systems other than Apache Kafka itself as the internal messaging layer; notably, it uses Kafka’s partitioning model to horizontally scale …