An introduction to Kafka's architecture and the design mechanics that support Kafka's powerful, real-time data streaming and integration features.

Kafka Connect’s goal of copying data between systems has been tackled by a variety of frameworks, many of them still actively developed and maintained. This section explains the motivation behind Kafka Connect, where it fits in the design space, and its unique features and design decisions.

Learn how the Kafka Streams architecture simplifies application development by building on the Apache Kafka producer and consumer APIs, and leveraging the native capabilities of |ak| to offer data parallelism, distributed coordination, fault tolerance, and operational simplicity.

Mar 31, 2025 · Thousands of organizations use Kafka for building event-driven architectures, real-time analytics and streaming pipelines. Kafka architecture is based on producer-subscriber model and follows distributed architecture, runs as cluster.

See how you represent Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables in a few clicks, unifying operational and analytical estates. This white paper provides a reference for data architects and system administrators who are planning to deploy Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform in production. You will learn:

Confluent Platform enables transformations through stream processing, simplifies enterprise operations at scale, and meets stringent architectural requirements. Confluent Platform is software you download and manage yourself. Any Kafka …

This beginner’s guide features Apache Kafka® courses and tutorials that will help you learn key Kafka concepts and how to get started from the ground up. It includes a look at Kafka architecture, core concepts, and the connector ecosystem.

This session explains Apache Kafka’s internal design and architecture. Companies like LinkedIn are now sending more than 1 trillion messages per day to Apache Kafka. Learn about the underlying design in Kafka that leads to such high throughput.

Confluent Enterprise Architecture Apache Kafka is an open source streaming platform designed to provide the basic components necessary for managing streaming data: Storage (Kafka core), integration (Kafka Connect), and processing (Kafka Streams). Apache Kafka …

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