Understanding Apache Kafka

May 14, 2018

Apache Kafka is a hot technology amongst application developers and architects looking to build the latest generation of real-time and web-scale applications. According the official Apache Kafka website “Kafka is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps. It is horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, wicked fast, and runs in production in thousands of companies.” This paper will explore that statement in a bit of detail to help you understand when and why you would use Kafka in your application and some of the key considerations when developing and deploying.

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