Apache Kafka is an open-source event streaming platform that can transport huge volumes of data at very low latency.  Companies like LinkedIn, Uber, and Netflix use Kafka to process trillions of events and petabtyes of data each day. Kafka was originally developed at LinkedIn [https://engineering.linkedin.com/27/project-kafka-distributed-publish-subscribe-messaging-system-reaches-v06] , to help handle

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Apache Kafka is an open-source event streaming platform used by companies like LinkedIn, Uber, and Netflix to process trillions of events and petabytes of data each day. It allows users to publish and subscribe to streams of events, store events in the order they happened, and process events in real time. Kafka is distributed, fault-tolerant, and optimized for high throughput. This post provides an introduction to Kafka, explains its core concepts, and guides readers on how to install and use Kafka using the command line interface (CLI) and Java.

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