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 mission-critical …

Kafka can be deployed on bare-metal hardware, virtual machines, and containers, and on-premises as well as in the cloud. You can choose between self-managing your Kafka environments and using …

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 data sources …

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 properties–it …

Dec 19, 2025 · In the distributed mode, Kafka Connect stores the offsets, configs and task statuses in Kafka topics. It is recommended to manually create the topics for offset, configs and statuses in …

Feb 16, 2026 · Kafka combines three key capabilities so you can implement your use cases for event streaming end-to-end with a single battle-tested solution: To publish (write) and subscribe to (read) …

Dec 19, 2025 · This guide describes how developers can write new connectors for Kafka Connect to move data between Kafka and other systems. It briefly reviews a few key concepts and then …

Dec 19, 2025 · Kafka Connect can ingest entire databases or collect metrics from all your application servers into Kafka topics, making the data available for stream processing with low latency.

Feb 20, 2026 · The following academic papers and publications cover Apache Kafka and/or the subject of event streaming in general. KSQL: Streaming SQL Engine for Apache Kafka by Hojjat Jafarpour, …

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