More than 80% of all Fortune 100 companies trust, and use Kafka. Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high …

Kafka is a distributed system consisting of servers and clients that communicate via a high-performance TCP network protocol. It can be deployed on bare-metal hardware, virtual …

Sep 2, 2025 · Kafka 4.1.0 includes a significant number of new features and fixes. For more information, please read our blog post, the detailed Upgrade Notes and the Release Notes.

We use Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams to enable our developers to access data freely in the company. Kafka Streams powers parts of our analytics pipeline and delivers endless …

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 …

In this quickstart we'll see how to run Kafka Connect with simple connectors that import data from a file to a Kafka topic and export data from a Kafka topic to a file.

Apache Kafka is used for both real-time and batch data processing, and is the chosen event log technology for Amadeus microservice-based streaming applications. Kafka is also used for …

In this quickstart we'll see how to run Kafka Connect with simple connectors that import data from a file to a Kafka topic and export data from a Kafka topic to a file.

Notably, in Kafka 4.0, Kafka Clients and Kafka Streams require Java 11, while Kafka Brokers, Connect, and Tools, now require Java 17. This release also updates the minimum supported …

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 …