Apache Kafka :

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed system consisting of servers and clients, which is created by linkedin. Apache Kafka is used by thousands of the world's leading organizations for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration and many other vital applications. Apache Kafka act as an communicaiton/transportation tool between the source system to target system with the following use cases :

1. Messaging systems


2. Activity Tracking


3. Application logs analysis


4. Decoupling of system dependencies


5. Integration with Big Data technologies like Spark, Flink, …

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