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 …

Nov 12, 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.

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.

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 machines, and containers …

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 · Kpow is an enterprise-grade toolkit that provides a rich, data-oriented UI and secure API for Apache Kafka. It's designed to give engineers deep visibility and control over their Kafka clusters, …

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 …

Dec 19, 2025 · Apache Kafka, Kafka, and the Kafka logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation in the United States and other countries.

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 this section, we describe how Kafka Streams works underneath the covers. The picture below shows the anatomy of an application that uses the Kafka Streams library.