Apache Kafka is the industry standard for event streaming. Created at LinkedIn, it handles trillions of events per day at companies like Netflix, Uber, and Airbnb. It's the backbone of real-time data architectures, enabling pub-sub messaging, stream processing, and event sourcing.
Key Features
✓High Throughput: Millions of events per second
✓Durability: Persistent, replicated log storage
✓Scalability: Horizontal scaling with partitions
✓Kafka Connect: Pre-built connectors for data integration
Organizations building real-time data pipelines, event-driven architectures, or needing reliable message streaming. Essential for microservices communication at scale.
