Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. It provides high-throughput, fault-tolerant, publish-subscribe messaging.

5 APIs 0 Features

Distributed SystemsEvent DrivenMessagingReal-TimeStreaming

APIs

Kafka Producer API

API for publishing streams of records to Kafka topics.

Kafka Consumer API

API for subscribing to topics and processing streams of records.

Kafka Streams API

API for building stream processing applications and microservices on top of Kafka.

Kafka Connect REST API

REST API for integrating Kafka with external systems through connectors.

Kafka Admin API

API for managing and inspecting topics, brokers, configurations, and ACLs.

Resources

GitHub Organization

Sources

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  Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform for high-performance
  data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical
  applications. It provides high-throughput, fault-tolerant, publish-subscribe
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      API for building stream processing applications and microservices on top
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      - Streaming
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  - aid: kafka:connect-api
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      REST API for integrating Kafka with external systems through connectors.
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      - Integration
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      API for managing and inspecting topics, brokers, configurations, and ACLs.
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      - Management
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  - FN: Kin Lane
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