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 …

May 21, 2025 · Kafka 1.1.0 includes a number of significant new features. Here is a summary of some notable changes: Kafka 1.1.0 includes significant improvements to the Kafka Controller …

Apache Kafka Quickstart. Everything you need to know about Kafka in 10 minutes (clicking the image will load a video from YouTube)

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 …

Apache Kafka® is a distributed streaming platform. What exactly does that mean? A streaming platform has three key capabilities: Pub/Sub Publish and subscribe to streams of records, …

Apache Kafka: A Distributed Streaming Platform. Apache Kafka Toggle navigation. Get Started Introduction Quickstart Use Cases Books & Papers Videos Podcasts Docs Key Concepts APIs …

Here is a description of a few of the popular use cases for Apache Kafka®. For an overview of a number of these areas in action, see this blog post. Messaging Kafka works well as a …

Notably, in Kafka 4.0, Kafka Clients and Kafka Streams require Java 11, while Kafka Brokers, Connect, and Tools, now require Java 17. This release also updates the minimum supported …

Apache Kafka is the most popular open-source stream-processing software for collecting, processing, storing, and analyzing data at scale. Most known for its excellent performance, low …

Kafka Streams is a client library of Kafka for real-time stream processing and analyzing data stored in Kafka brokers. This quickstart example will demonstrate how to run a streaming …