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-performance data …

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) streams of events, …

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 …

Kafka Streams builds on fault-tolerance capabilities integrated natively within Kafka. Kafka partitions are highly available and replicated; so when stream data is persisted to Kafka it is available even if the …

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 options to …

The Connector API allows building and running reusable producers or consumers that connect Kafka topics to existing applications or data systems. For example, a connector to a relational database …

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.

The system can output processed data flows to Kafka or email, or write to databases like Kx kdb+, InfluxDb, or any SQL database. Apache Kafka is used for both real-time and batch data processing, …

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, Rohan …

Nov 12, 2025 · Several new features have been added to Kafka Connect, including header support (KIP-145), SSL and Kafka cluster identifiers in the Connect REST interface (KIP-208 and KIP-238), …